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Posted: Jan. 11 2005,02:01 QUOTE

Are you specifying the restore location?
dsl restore=hda3
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Posted: Jan. 15 2005,23:57 QUOTE

My experience...  (May or may not be of help.)

I run DSL on my laptop.  The second partition (D:\ in Windows) is where I back up my files to.  It's called hda5 when seen from DSL.

Why?  I dunno...  I suppose it has to deal with what order the devices are seen from the BIOS.

In anycase...  I told it to back up to that volume only once.  Restored from that volume...  And now, when I shut down DSL, it automatically backs up to hda5.  And just recently, I set the syslinux.cfg on my boot device (floppy) to automatically run the restore at boot up (so I don't have to type it).

For all intents and purposes my laptop runs 100% as a duel boot.
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Posted: Jan. 20 2005,14:40 QUOTE

Yes, I'm convinced: restore does work!

When I first tried the restore technique, I did not fully
understand the importance of filetool.lst to a successful
recreation of the workspace.

It's unfortunate that the default filetool.lst does not backup
ALL /home/dsl files and directories, especially .xinitrc, so
the user can see previous configuration changes at bootup.

On re-reading them, the directions on restore are complete
enough to get it working, but, for newbie users, you might want
to include a short recipe emphasizing the pre-eminence of
filetool.lst. My short recipe would be something like:

1. Load dsl restore=hda3  mydsl=hda3  ---  choose your own partition
2. Edit /home/dsl/filetool.lst:
 - add, at a minimum, .xinitrc so your X changes will be    
   remembered.
 - Add any other files and directories that you want to track to
   filetool.lst

3. Reboot

Thanks for everyone for your assistance on this topic.
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