roberts
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Posted: Sep. 02 2006,17:43 |
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Once you have selected a backup device, the backup and restore become automatic.
If you watch the boot messages you will see the messages relating to this.
The backup/restore is really for the natively writeable areas of the system when run from liveCD or frugal install. This means all of home/dsl and selected parts of /opt
The backup/restore is writing each time you shutdown and reading each time you boot up.
Now, the mydsl extensions, are very large and static, i.e., they do not change, therefore you would not want such large items to have to be written every time you shutdown. Therefore, if you have downloaded some mydsl apps and they are on the /tmp directory, at shutdown, you are prompted to save them that is why the file manager appears.
On a pendrive frugally installed system your choices for saving depend on if it is a USBZIP or USBHDD. If it is a USBHDD then you have a single partition /dev/sda1 and this is already mounted as /cdrom. So choose /cdrom to save the extensions. If it happens to be a USBZIP they choose sda2
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