files in .filetool.lst not restoring

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: files in .filetool.lst not restoring
started by: mike54703

Posted by mike54703 on Sep. 01 2006,18:53

Hi,

I'm using DSL for a photo frame by following a recipe from another thread on this forum. However, some files that I'm adding to .filetool.lst are not being restored on a reboot. I've uncompressed and looked in the tar ball /mnt/hda2/backup.tar.gz and the files appear to be in the tar ball.

I don't get any error messages during the boot other than a restore is being done.

Restoring backup files from /mnt/hda2 Done.

I've doubled check the spelling of all names - no mistakes there.

The files I'm trying to backup are associated with zgv

etc/zgv.conf
etc/vga/libvga.config
usr/bin/zgv
usr/lib/libpng.so.2.1.0.12
usr/lib/libvga.so.1
usr/lib/libvga.so.1.4.3
usr/lib/libvgagl.so.1
usr/lib/libvgagl.so.1.4.3

The first two stick - they get restored, but the others do not.

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 01 2006,19:37

You can't restore files to /usr unless you first run mkwriteable (load a *.dsl extension).

This will work only if you auto-load any myDSL package with a *.dsl filename, since it will be loaded before the restoration.

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 01 2006,20:03

An alternative to having these files in your backup:

1) Make sure the files are properly installed and working
2) Make a list of the files (files.txt, for example):
etc/zgv.conf
etc/vga/libvga.config
usr/bin/zgv
usr/lib/libpng.so.2.1.0.12
usr/lib/libvga.so.1
usr/lib/libvga.so.1.4.3
usr/lib/libvgagl.so.1
usr/lib/libvgagl.so.1.4.3
3) Become root: sudo su
4) Move to the top level of the file system: cd /
5) Create a mydsl package:
tar -czf /home/dsl/zgv.dsl --no-recursion --numeric-owner -T /path/to/files.txt
6) Put the dsl file in a place where it can be loaded automatically

Posted by mike54703 on Sep. 01 2006,21:15

Exactly where I was headed... some type of alternate backup. I'll look into the myDSL approach.

Thanks!!!

Posted by khagberg on Sep. 27 2006,01:49

Did you do this:

Now we will modify the boot menu. Type mount /dev/hda1 enter. We will use nano which is a text editor for editing all files.
Type sudo nano /mnt/hda1/boot/grub/menu.lst enter.
The default setting is to select which menu option it will default to with 0 being the first option. If you choose DSL fb1024x768 and your system is running fine, set the default to 2.
Set the timeout to be 3
Under the timeout option type hiddenmenu
Go down to the line title DSL fb1024x768
On the next line that starts with kernel add [/B]write quiet[B] to the end of the line.
Type Ctrl-X and answer Y to save and enter.

I know my directions had a few typos sorry. One more thing to add would be the acpid so that when you power it down it umounts everything clean