Squeezed_Rotel wrote: > Hello, when I try to do a backup from the main page, I get this: > > > Code: -------------------- > > [ INFO ] Backing up files to /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/mydata.tgz/-\|/-\| > Done. > [ OK ] Backup successful. > [ WARN ] Backup is too big - 300345 bytes -------------------- > > > > Thoughts?
kolossos4730 wrote: > I noticed the same warning when I did a backup with 'pcp bu' from the > command line. Hi Squeezed_Rotel and kolossos4730, It is my understanding that the piCore backup command is really only intended to store configuration files. It shouldn't contain static files. So the backup should be quite small. Usually piCorePlayer has a backup is about 130K, so we put a warning if it exceeds 200k. Too small maybe, if you load all the available add-ons? While piCorePlayer doesn't follow the piCore convention atm, some where along the line it will be changed and the backup will get even smaller. Why are we concerned about the size of the backup file? There are occasions during the boot up process where a backup occurs. If your backup is large it will, at best, just slow down the boot process, but if the size is excessive it will cause the boot procedure to fail due to timing issues. Generally, with piCore/piCorePayer the backup process is probably the only time something gets written to the SD card, so speed of the card can be an issue. We have heard of one occasion where the backup was taking over 1 minute, I think 1 or 2 seconds is normal. This really caused the user a lot of problems that we didn't foresee. If you guys could look at what is in your backup and lets us know if it is just normal stuff, or have you been adding stuff to your home directory? In [Beta] mode, click on [Diagnostics ]and scroll down to "[ INFO ] Backup mydata". regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Erskine's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7403 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105018 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
