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Topic: Adding apps to backup, I think a bit stupid question ;)

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boon

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Posted: Feb. 20 2006,15:26

Hi! I have an problem with restoring things up from an sda.
It restores my theme browser cache and other stuff....
But my apps just dont restore

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I think I just ned to add smthin to my filetool.lst.
But what?
Two last things
1.Archives are downloaded in the default tmp folder
2. My filetool.lst file:

Code Sample

opt/ppp
opt/bootlocal.sh
opt/powerdown.sh
opt/.dslrc
opt/.mydsl_dir
opt/.dslrc
home/dsl/

doobit

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Posted: Feb. 20 2006,15:42

I don't know it this is the problem, but for persistant apps you also need the path to filetool.lst to be in the filetool.lst - understand? Also, if you try to copy the apps to the root folder of sda you will corrupt the file system and need to reinstall. The apps should be copied as root user to /cdrom.

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boon

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Posted: Feb. 20 2006,15:57

I don't really understand what you are triyin to say but maybe i didn sad things correxctly... Iam running froma live cd and each time before shuting down saving al the stuff to the flash(sda) and restoring things up on the next boot

I think it differ's things... but i am not sure
O yeah teese aren't any coustom apps theese are those dsl extensions

mikshaw

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Posted: Feb. 20 2006,16:25

Quote (roberts @ Jan. 24 2006,14:28)

I would not suggest to save extensions in your home directory.
Since this post is under pendrive, it is even more important not to do so.

Extensions are large and static, i.e, they do not change.
Normal operating procedures imply that all files in your home
dir will be in the backup/restore procedure.

This then would imply the heavy writing and reading to the
pendrive would occur with the extensions located there.
You could of course add them to the .xfiletool.lst but this just complicates things.

By design, it is preferred to save desired extensions to /cdrom
This is the root writeable mountpoint for the pendrives and
frugal type installs.

So as root copy the extension to /cdrom and
optionally create an optional directory there as well.

This then would mean write once, read many, and this means
much less wear on the pendrive as well as keeping the
backup/restore to a minimum and uncomplicated.

If you should be running a USB-ZIP type pendrive, then you
may well not have enought space on /cdrom
With this type of install it ispreferred to use sda2 the
remaining partition for extensions and use the boot option mydsl=sda2

Quote (roberts @ Feb. 14 2006,21:01)

When running frugal, liveCD, or any other compressed versions then deb packages should be treated like any other dsl package. That being, keep an uninstalled copy of the .deb(s) and then upon bootup use dpkg -i otherwise, you would be adding so much to the filetool list and also have the same issues of backing up and restoring large static packages that is very inefficent and not at all desireable.

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