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cactusneedle
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Re: All About Remastersys Backup
« Reply #15 on Apr 19, 2012, 1:21pm »

The only way I could get my first Remastersys full backup of SalineOS to install as a live cd was to uninstall Remastersys from the Synaptic and go to www.Remastersys.com and reload v. 2.0.23-1 (squeeze) directly from the web site using GdebiInstaller to load the software. Then the installer frontend reappeared in my applications menu and could properly install my live cd backup. It had completely disappeared when the backup was made. Wonder if anyone else has had this problem? I'm creating a new live cd backup today and will see what happens with the latest live cd.

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Re: All About Remastersys Backup
« Reply #16 on Nov 1, 2012, 5:49pm »

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hard time getting the iso size under 4 GiB

install the package "localepurge" (rids extra foreign language files)

install the package "bleachbit" (it is configurable, many granular types of files it will enable you to cleanup)

prior to backup (or remaster) run bleachbit twice, once as normal user, once as root (to target separate trash folders etc)

If your file manager (and/or other apps) is configured to create thumbnail images of browsed files, those thumb files accumulate and can occupy considerable space. Find the path(s) those thumbs are stored to & nix 'em prior to performing a backup. FWIW, you can setup the identified paths in bleachbit & rely on it to handle the cleanup.

Similarly, the packagekit-based "Software Manager" app (or whatever its called)(not the "synaptic" gui software installer) will store cached screenshot images and other descriptive datafiles for any of the file(s) and category(ies) pages you've browsed. The files accumulate, the app cache is never cleared (AFAIK). Once you find the cache path used by the app, add its path to you custom list in bleachbit.

At first run, you can expect that removing lang files etc. should cleanup at least 120Mb (more like 180-230Mb if you have installed many apps). On subsequent runs, between cached copies of dl'ed deb files and whatnot, I typically see bleackbit clean 80-120Mb of cruft.

Theme files don't take up much disk space, but having "extra, never used" icon sets installed is fairly expensive, storage-wise. Expensive , as in, each given icon set might occupy as much as15-25Mb of drive space.

If you have upgraded the kernel of your system through the months... perhaps you left the old kernel in place, as a fallback (and forgot about it). Those no longer needed pairs of kernel/header files occupy about 20Mb/pr.

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Re: All About Remastersys Backup
« Reply #17 on Nov 2, 2012, 1:45am »

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good advice friend

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