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ke4nt1

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Posted: June 22 2005,22:16

Without posting up the info I requested from you,
I'm shooting in the dark here, SuperLou..

Might be typos in your filetool.lst ??

Perhaps you have leading slashes in front of your lines in filetool.lst?
( /home/dsl/.xserverrc , instead of home/dsl/.xserverrc )

What's in your xfiletool.lst ??
What's the contents of your .xserverrc file before you backup?

At this point, I'm guessing here..
I'd be more helpful to you...,if you would be more helpful to me,
and post...

73
ke4nt

SuperLou

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Posted: June 23 2005,02:30

I'm sorry, i've been messing around with the script and tried re-installing. I'm an idiot and thought xfiletool.lst was a typo. Once xfree86 has been run backup want xfiletool.lst?

ke4nt1

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Posted: June 23 2005,04:40

hehe.. no problem..

Yes, xfiletool.lst is a necessity..

1. filetool.lst contains everything you want to backup.
It should already contain the entire 'home/dsl' directory in it.
You can add things like etc/X11/XF86config-4, etc...

2. xfiletool.lst contains everything you DON'T want in your
backup. Backing up the entire 'home/dsl' directory makes
things become non-dynamic, meaning any changes you
make get dumped into your backup.tar.gz..
If these are icons, or menu additions from mydsl-loaded
apps, for example, then upon reboot,
those icons/menus are restored.. but not the apps you
mydsl-loaded.. boo .. Then the icons are orphaned..

Most everything harmful to dynamic desktop is already
in the xfiletool.lst.. just add items to filetool.lst via
an editor, or the add2filetool button in emelfm.

73
ke4nt

SuperLou

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Posted: June 23 2005,12:50

Has xfiletool.lst always been there or is it new from installing xfree86?

hawki

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Posted: June 23 2005,13:18

Hi SuperLou
I guess I am at least partially to blame for the xfiletool.lst addition. It was added to DSL in version 1.2. I requested it to solve a problem I was having. My backup.tar.gz file kept growing and the original script just excluded backing up the Cache files. I wanted a way to easily tell the system to not backup other "stuff". Since I use Opera I add things like

.opera/images
.opera/cache4

These are caching files that Opera uses that take up a lot of space but add little or no value from one boot to the next. I hope this helps.
good luck

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