Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-24 Thread cpu memhd
ddparker wrote: NEVER BACKUP PACKAGES WITH DESTINATION DEVICE (hda1) MOUNTED! This will corrupt the CF disk. Yikes. I had a problem with corruption only once, using DriveImage under DOS. For several months, while testing Leaf, my CF would be mounted 80% of the time. I've never experienced

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-24 Thread cpu memhd
Erich Titl wrote: NEVER BACKUP PACKAGES WITH DESTINATION DEVICE (hda1) MOUNTED! This will corrupt the CF disk. It is not really _that_ bad. The only package which is attempted is root.lrp and, of course, a backup of all packages (which includes root). Then it is not only hda1

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-21 Thread Erich Titl
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi Arne, | | Indeed and we don't know which mount directory an user creates. | I just mount my CF under /mnt (which also seems obvious to me) and | never had a problem. | | Certainly true,

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-20 Thread Erich Titl
Darcy ddparker wrote: Hi All, I still consider myself to be a newbie to leaf and Linux in general and found myself corrupting files on a CF Disk. I had to learn the hard way so I thought I would share my woes. I have been working with Troy Aden (Thanks Troy) getting beta 4 to work on CF

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-20 Thread Paul Traina
Seems to me that the backup command for the root .lrp package should include instructions to tar to not traverse filesystems? --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA *

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-20 Thread Arne Bernin
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 09:08 -0700, Paul Traina wrote: Seems to me that the backup command for the root .lrp package should include instructions to tar to not traverse filesystems? unfortunatly it seems that busybox tar is not aware of this option (-l). --arne -- Arne Bernin [EMAIL

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-20 Thread Jaap Eldering
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 06:16:32PM +0200, Arne Bernin wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 09:08 -0700, Paul Traina wrote: Seems to me that the backup command for the root .lrp package should include instructions to tar to not traverse filesystems? unfortunatly it seems that busybox tar is not

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-20 Thread Erich Titl
Jaap Eldering wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 06:16:32PM +0200, Arne Bernin wrote: ... Isn't this already handled by the root.exclude.list? In it e.g. /mnt /mnt? /nfs are listed, so if you'd mount another filesystem there (which seems the obvious choice to me), then you won't have problems

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-20 Thread E . Spakman
Hello Jaap, Erich, Isn't this already handled by the root.exclude.list? In it e.g. /mnt /mnt? /nfs are listed, so if you'd mount another filesystem there (which seems the obvious choice to me), then you won't have problems backing up root.lrp while your floppy/CF card is mounted. It is,

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-20 Thread Erich Titl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jaap, Erich, .. Indeed and we don't know which mount directory an user creates. I just mount my CF under /mnt (which also seems obvious to me) and never had a problem. Certainly true, still I believe it is good this had some exposure, because I believe

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-20 Thread Arne Bernin
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 22:41 +0200, Erich Titl wrote: Hi Eric, Erich and Jaap! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jaap, Erich, .. Indeed and we don't know which mount directory an user creates. I just mount my CF under /mnt (which also seems obvious to me) and never had a problem.

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-20 Thread E . Spakman
Hi Arne, Indeed and we don't know which mount directory an user creates. I just mount my CF under /mnt (which also seems obvious to me) and never had a problem. Certainly true, still I believe it is good this had some exposure, because I believe some users were not aware of this. The

Re: [leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-20 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi Arne, | | Indeed and we don't know which mount directory an user creates. | I just mount my CF under /mnt (which also seems obvious to me) and | never had a problem. | | Certainly true, still I believe it is good this

[leaf-user] Back up script suggestion

2005-08-19 Thread ddparker
Hi All, I still consider myself to be a newbie to leaf and Linux in general and found myself corrupting files on a CF Disk. I had to learn the hard way so I thought I would share my woes. I have been working with Troy Aden (Thanks Troy) getting beta 4 to work on CF as described by Peter