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Re: salineos-backup won't exec from menu
« Reply #15 on May 21, 2012, 4:27am »

So I suggest to wait with this, there are still few possible issues.

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Re: salineos-backup won't exec from menu
« Reply #16 on Jun 9, 2012, 9:28pm »

I ran Sos-backup last night (from a terminal) and from the menu.
Both ways seem to work, for me, now.

I umounted /data and the /xtra partition, and added them into the excludes just in case,
but it seems that umounting was enough. Probably listing them in excludes would have worked as well.

I installed the resulting *.backup into the /xtra partition and now have a semi-clone of my main install. Say "semi" cause some things in fstab were not carried over. Probably just as well.

I'll try it on something else when I get the chance but it seems to be working well.

I've been running AutoUpdateTesting, maybe that gets the updated salineos-backup and it's parts where they are supposed to be? Anybody have any experience with the testing update?

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Re: salineos-backup, from menu? [RESOLVED]
« Reply #17 on Jun 12, 2012, 9:36am »

Both unmounting and adding the mount points to the excludes will prevent them from being included in the .backup file, either method is equally effective.

SalineOS backup will receive updates through the 2.x SalineOS repository, which is currently being tested.

Fstab will not be preserved by SalineOS backup as the restore process simply removes fstab entirely and writes out a new one. This step really can't be optional since if I left fstab alone it is likely the UUID's it contained won't be valid anymore.

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Re: salineos-backup, from menu? [RESOLVED]
« Reply #18 on Jun 12, 2012, 4:09pm »

Fstab: makes sense. Now I understand why Brian was/is using labels.

The backup is quick and I need to practice with it a bit.
I can still clone with fsarchiver on the CLI if needed.

Is the SalineOS2 repo available for inclusion in Sos1.6 sources.list?
Or is it pretty much Wheezy and not compatible with Squeeze?

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Re: salineos-backup, from menu? [RESOLVED]
« Reply #19 on Jun 12, 2012, 5:21pm »

I don't always use labels, I mostly use them for my data partition so I can use the same string in fstab on both my machines.

I've been playing about with a remaster of SalineOS for using with qt4-fsarchiver the GUI for fsarchiver. I did one last January and thought I'd update it but I would like Anthony's blessing before I make a post on the solus forums with a link to it. :-*

I quite like the functional desktop. Screen shot
Restore CD

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Re: salineos-backup, from menu? [RESOLVED]
« Reply #20 on Jun 12, 2012, 9:12pm »

@ukbrian,
OK, understand on the labels. I had some problems after my backup install, but I think it was trying to edit fstab to point to too many of the same things and it seemed to reinitiate my original /home to be the same as the backup. No big deal but had to reconfig my stuff.

Probably should have used labels for my /data partition.

I'll take a look at your iso. BTW, the screen shot link seems to have some extraneous text.
%35dhttp://lin.me.uk/temp/Screenshot-qt4.png and it gives a 404. Taking out the %35
gives this: dhttp://lin.me.uk/temp/Screenshot-qt4.png pointer into the Refracta forum,
but I don't see the screenshot.

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Re: salineos-backup, from menu? [RESOLVED]
« Reply #21 on Jun 12, 2012, 10:19pm »

Jun 12, 2012, 4:09pm, Richard wrote:

Fstab: makes sense. Now I understand why Brian was/is using labels.

Using the repository on 1.x is really REALLY not recommended. Right now there is nothing in it that will break anything, but such packages will be uploaded soon. If you happen to have a Wheezy system then you just need to add this to the sources file:

#SalineOS
deb http://www.salineos.com/Repo salineos main

The public key for the repository is available in git. You can find it in the folder key, to add it open a root terminal there and issue the command:

apt-key add ./salineos-repo.key

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Re: salineos-backup, from menu? [RESOLVED]
« Reply #22 on Jun 13, 2012, 9:08am »

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BTW, the screen shot link seems to have some extraneous text.

Sorry about that, I normally check that things work, I must stop posting when I'm tired. :'(

The good news is I've managed to get enough pennies together to get a laptop together so I've ordered one of these http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/range/eliteoptima2450v2.html so brian's a happy bunny.

Time to back off a bit and think about things again.

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Re: salineos-backup, from menu? [RESOLVED]
« Reply #23 on Jun 13, 2012, 12:22pm »

Has some nice specs. And available without Windows.
Sounds promising. Enjoy.

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Re: salineos-backup, from menu? [RESOLVED]
« Reply #24 on Jun 13, 2012, 8:57pm »

It's not available until the 22nd so I have a few good days to anticipate it arrival.
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I'm just installing xubuntu cos remastersys has released a trial version for it that's supposed to run on debian as well. Interestingly he's written it with
BaCon is a free BASIC to C converter for Unix-based systems.

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Now for a bit about bacon. The deb package offered for download on the bacon website is created and maintained by me although I am not the developer as it is way over my head - lol.

Bacon allows you to make a program in BASIC similar to the old commodore basic except you do not need line numbers. There is a gui library called HUG which incorporates the gtk gui library in a simple manner. When you compile your bacon program, it is converted into C and then compiled like a normal C program. This allows it to run very quickly and the binary remains small. My C knowledge is limited but I have had a lot of years with commodore basic. I feel very comfortable programming in bacon and the end result is a C compiled binary using libgtk. I'm also fragadelic on the basic-converter.org forum and the developer of bacon is fantastic. Always answers your questions about programming issues and some of us that have been using it for a while also try to help.

If you are comfortable in basic and want a short learning curve to program then this is for you. It has become my default programming tool for linux. Eventually I will rewrite all my little helper tools in bacon and offer them up for download from my repositories.

Bacon also has internationalization support and if you write your program using the internationalization code it will be translatable. The new remastersys-gui is internationalized and when ready I will post a link to the pot file so folks can translate it into their own language and have it included in the package.

And we were talking pascal [image]

I wonder if it's similar to MS VB 6 8-)

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Re: salineos-backup, from menu? [RESOLVED]
« Reply #25 on Jun 13, 2012, 9:02pm »

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some things in fstab were not carried over

The things I needed I put in the /etc/default/grub file at the top but commented out.

Crude but it works for me,
I have a menu item that calls "exec=gksu geany /etc/fstab /etc/default/grub"

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Re: salineos-backup, from menu? [RESOLVED]
« Reply #26 on Jun 13, 2012, 9:43pm »

Hey, I can live with that.
Better than having to look it up and copy from somewhere else.

Don't know about MS-VB6 but it is still around after 20 years --not great but serviceable.
I spent quite a few years with C64 Basic, but I still really like/prefer Pascal.
Started with TurboPascal 'cause the C compiler I had was dog slow, and so was the binary.

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