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Topic: Can Backup be turned off?, old machine takes too long to shutdown

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zubalove

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Posted: April 18 2006,01:47

Simple problem, my old laptop takes about 3 minutes at shutdown backing itself up. What can I do about this? Can I turn backup off and do it manually when I want it? Any thoughts or tips?

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dtf

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Posted: April 18 2006,02:05

I believe there if the file /opt/.back_device is empty then you will not backup. Alternatively I would try this.

run the command filetool.sh backup at the command prombt (you might have to be root). You can watch which files are taking up time backing up. If you do not need the files you can remove them or if you want to save them but not back them up create a directory something like /home/dsl/nobackup and move the files you do not want backuped to that directory and then add the path home/dsl/nobackup to .xfiletool.lst in the dsl home directory. When enterring the directory name do not terminate it with a '/' as this does not work for skipping the directory on backup.