User Feedback :: Does 'restore' really work in 0.9.2?

Are you specifying the restore location?
dsl restore=hda3

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.

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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