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Topic: Newbie question about persistence

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fooser

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Posted: Dec. 17 2006,19:37

Hi, this is probably a silly question, but it is safe to do a settings backup to a hard drive partition with existing files? I have an old machine with a fat32 partition with many files I don't want to lose. The same goes for the home persistence. BTW, sorry for the bad english.

mikshaw

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Posted: Dec. 18 2006,00:52

Your personal settings, if saved using the DSL backup/restore system, are saved into a single backup.tar.gz file, so they will not overwrite anything other than an existing file named backup.tar.gz, and will not partition or format any drive.

home persistence works only with a directory named home/dsl, so you'll need a directory named "home" which contains a subdirectory named "dsl". This is not a good idea on a fat32 partition, however, since this type of filesystem does not properly handle linux file permissions.

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