andrewb
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Posted: Mar. 03 2008,04:42 |
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You can't write to NTFS partitions - that is why that didn't work. How did you reboot?
If you selected the 'Exit' icon on the desktop (or from the menu) you should have got a box that gave you the option to back-up or not back up via a checkbox. So long as the checkbox was ticked you should have seen a backup being done as it shut down before rebooting.
Have you got any other backup.tar.gz files on any other drives as the boot process searches through the drives & uses the first one it comes across, unless you tell it otherwise. You can use the restore=sdaX boot code to force it to use a particular drive for finding the backup file (sdaX can be replaced by whatever your drive is, e.g. hda1, hdc5, sda8, ....... - your usb drive is most likely sda1 - check this by right clicking one of the desktop icons & looking at the mounts available - you mustn't use the '/mnt/' in the boot code - also make sure that this is the same name you used in the backup too, again without the '/mnt/' suffix!)
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