backup restore

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: backup restore
started by: elbriga

Posted by elbriga on June 21 2005,13:55

I just bought a pen drive today, and remembered DSL can save/restore settings on it... So I've downloaded DSL current (1.2.1 I think) and burn a CD. OK booted.. OK. Now I want to save my settings on my pen drive... I can mount it OK... /dev/sda1, I did a mke2fs -j /dev/sda1... OK ext3 FS on it... My guess is that I have to go to System -> Backup/Restore to save my settings... right? It asks for a device, I tried: /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, mounted it, /mnt/sda1, and It just hanged, I discovered that on tty1 it gives a msg like "Invalid device /dev/sda" for all my attempts... What am I missing here?

Gabriel Ortiz - Curitiba - Paraná - Brasil - 10:57 am - 21/06/05

Posted by green on June 21 2005,13:59

go to -> System -> Control Panel
click backup/restore
type in the device like this, exactly:

sda1

that's it!
That's how I do it.