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Posted: July 01 2005,13:26 QUOTE

Alright, thanks for the reply roberts.
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Posted: July 02 2005,12:24 QUOTE

Hi,

I've a similar problem with backup/restore!
DSL just won't, no matter what I'm trying.

The last thing I did was:
Reformatting and Reinstalling frugal to hda2 (hda1 is swap, hda3 is my precious stuff) with following parameters given when the install script asks for command line:
restore=hda3 home=hda3 opt=hda3 mydsl=hda3 dma
All other questions of the scrip regarding mydsl and restore I have answered with NO.

When booting, I can see the DSL message of restoring from hda3
Then I changed /opt/bootlocal.sh and /opt/powerdown.sh.
Then I checked for /opt/.backup_device , it exists and contains  hda3
Then I did a shutdown, power off, power on.
DSL again displayed the message restoring from hda3,
but the code I added to bootlocal.sh isn't executed.
When opening /opt/bootlocal.sh with emelf, it doesn't contain
my previous changes anymore.

I've also tried the desktop backup/restore feature.
No success.

I'm really lost  :(

Any ideas? Thanks

Pio
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Posted: July 02 2005,18:05 QUOTE

@roberts

>Yes, I would not recommend swap on a CF, nor persistent home on CF, as the >cache would also be very hard on CF device.

Could you elaborate on the cache mechanism, I am using a frugal install on a CF card. hda1= dsl boot image hda2 = /opt /dsl /home ect. no swap

Is this setup caching to the CF device?
What is persistant home?

regards b1m1
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Posted: July 02 2005,19:41 QUOTE

OK, I think I found out, why my backup/restore didn't work.
Maybe some of you more experienced guys can confirm this:

1) I have been loggin onto DSL using SSH/Putty as root.
   (This should not be related to what I found but .....)
2) I had a look at
     /KNOPPIX/usr/sbin/filetool.sh
   and saw that a file  xfiletool.lst is being referenced.
3) I ran
     filetool.sh backup
   and got the error message
      "tar: /home/dsl/xfiletool.lst : No such file or directory"
      "tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now"
4) This means, the script is actually looking for xfiletool.lst
   and not filetool.lst  on my system.
   Why this I don't know yet.
5) Solution:
      cp   /home/dsl/filetool.lst  /home/dsl/xfiletool.lst
6) I ran   filetool.sh again, this time without error.
   Rebooted.
   Backup seems to work now !!

Is this a bug?

Would be nice if somebody could check my assumption.

Pio
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Posted: July 05 2005,21:13 QUOTE

Response to magicpio.  It sounds to me like you did not have a file named xfiletool.lst to begin with for some reason.  By doing the "cp /home/dsl/filetool.lst  /home/dsl/xfiletool.lst" command you created one which allowed the backup script to run error free.
I searched the forums and found the following entry detailing the use of xfiletool.lst.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....ool.lst

This file allows you to exclude individual files or directories from a directory that you are backing up which is pretty neat.  

The thing I do not understand is that by coping filetool.lst to xfiletool.lst, it seems that you would cause the filetool.sh script to exclude everything that you want to backup.  I am reasonablly new to DSL and I am trying to learn and understand as much as I can.

Can anyone else verify my thoughts and explain how this works?

Thanks
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