Saving settings

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Saving settings
started by: lostcity

Posted by lostcity on Aug. 02 2004,19:48

Being new to DSL, I read the instructions for saving settings to file. while it might be obvious, how do I save my email settings to file so I don't have to reconfigure my email every time I boot.

Thansk in advance

Posted by ke4nt1 on Aug. 02 2004,20:38

add these lines to your filetool.lst before you backup ..

/home/dsl/Mail
/home/dsl/.sylpheed

make sure you are editing the filetool.lst copy in the
/home/dsl directory if you are using the later 0.7.3 series.

73
ke4nt

Posted by lostcity on Aug. 03 2004,02:13

Thanks much

Posted by evi|one on Aug. 13 2004,18:09

Can i put filetool.lst somewhere on CD for automatic restore?

Posted by ke4nt1 on Aug. 13 2004,21:13

No, the CD is read only...

You must use either a floppy disc, an ext2 or fat16/32 HD partition,
or another location like a usb key, etc to backup.

The line "/home/dsl/filetool.lst" should be in your filetool.lst.
That way your filetool.lst is in your backup as well as the other files you wish to keep.

You can automatically restore at boottime with "dsl restore" if you use a floppy.
Use "dsl restore=hdxx" for a HD or usb location.

73
ke4nt

Posted by evi|one on Aug. 15 2004,14:08

I backed up on a floppy, then took backup.tar.gz, renamed it to backup.dsl and burned in in the root of the CD. It works like a charm. Walking around with a the live cd AND a floppy seemed a bit stupid, especially when the floppy is actually bigger than the mini-CD i used

Posted by roberts on Aug. 15 2004,15:31

This has been discussed before. You can and should factor out of your backup, the files that do not change and represent your specific configuration for your system. Then you can easily name it some like myconf.tar.gz and then add it to the cdrom or other myDSL areas. Then upon boot up you have your "custom" system.

But to rename backup.tar.gz to backup.dsl causes overhead on the system by requiring mkwriteable when really not needed. Also not practical, for bookmarks, email, and other items that frequently change.