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Both halves will be transparent in 0.8.1

The new filetool now enables me to backup and restore to the bootpartition .
You made a nice simple gui for it.( so this is why flua is introduced.)

my knoppix_dir and backup.tar.gz is on /dev/hda7

if i use device /cdrom restore works
if i use device /hda7 restore works

what boot paramter do a use to have the restore a boottime?

i have tried
restore=cdrom
restore=/cdrom
restore=/hda7

none of these work.

<edit>
restore=/dev/hda7 doesnt work.

if i do a very quick & dirty patch replace all of /etc/rc5.d/S49dsl_restore with:

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash

# Aw schucks, sorry I couldn't mount any drive that I know...
BACKUP_DEVICE="/dev/hda7"
echo "$BACKUP_DEVICE" > /opt/.backup_device

/usr/sbin/filetool.sh restore noprompt

exit 0

and make a patch.tar.gz place it in mydsl extesions
it works perfect.

i hope you dont think any of my posts is to critize your work.
you do a very good job.

Try this ..
" restore=hda7 "

You don't need a leading / in this option.
from the cdrom, try " restore=cdrom2 "

and the new DSL 0.8.1 should handle this much better than before.

73
ke4nt

sorry: restore=hda7 doesnt work.

henk1955, please post your /etc/fstab, so I may see where might be a problem. Off the top of my head, I suspect that the device is not detected at boot time and must not be in /etc/fstab. The logic is quite simple the target is searched for in /etc/fstab and the mount point is returned from there. I have an aversion to using cdrom and use sda1, but really either should work. We did do alot of testing backiing and restore to many paritions both from the boot option as well as the filetool gui. Your input is appreciated.

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