disable backup temporarly

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: disable backup temporarly
started by: william99

Posted by william99 on July 25 2007,18:46

is there any way to disable backup and restore temporarly.
the restore one u could use dsl norestore.
but for backup one can it be disable before the next reboot ?
(other than hit the reset button)

Posted by roberts on July 25 2007,22:05

Use the control panel and backup/restore button then click None

DSL 4 has an option upon shutdown/reboot.

Posted by mikshaw on July 25 2007,22:06

open up the backup/restore tool and clear out the listed device, or remove the device listed in (or delete) /opt/.backup_device

Posted by william99 on July 26 2007,09:52

thx. i'm looking forward to dsl 4

Posted by Big_Pc_Man on July 26 2007,15:36

Do the solutions offered in the above posts turnoff the automatic backup that occurs on shutdown or restart forever? In other words, disables the auto backup feature until a manual backup is requested again.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 26 2007,15:48

No, it is only temporary. If you do not want to backup, the easiest way is to _not_ use restore. If you still want your previous settings, just rename it and let DSL pick it up as a regular mydsl extension.

Posted by Big_Pc_Man on July 27 2007,02:44

The reason I'm asking all these questions is that I'm trying to avoid a sequence of events that was quite frustrating. I had an extention that failed to load on boot that stopped all further restore operations resulting in default /opt and /home being loaded. Not thinking I rebooted to take a closer look at the measages which resulted in my backup file being corrupted due to the auto backup on shutdown.
Not good!