DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: backup on the web



Actually there's an idea, is there a way to exclude something in the filetool.lst / webdata.lst?
You can add /home/dsl so that you backup all the bits and pieces you may have in there, but you would also get the dirs and settings in there that you may not want to backup, say /home/dsl/.xtdesktop - if you could exclude certain files/dirs, could make it more flexible, as you don't need to specify every single file you want to backup?
(as when you specify a directory in the lst, it includes everything in that directory and it's subdirectories)
So when does this happen?  Can you use this as a replacement for your "normal" restore? Or would this be in addition to a fewer files in your backup.tar.gz? Most of your net connection files in the backup, and your fonts, desktop, etc in your webdata?  (sorry, haven't figured out how to do the dual boot yet, and have to be the fileserver for the wife, so I haven't tested this out yet)
Quote (roberts @ April 07 2005,16:10)
Ok. Lets try an experiment. A call for beta testers.
I have uploaded my program that I wrote last September. I have been using it without problems with my ISP.
I have packaged it as an extension. If the results are good I will add it into the iso.

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Note this program is to be considered beta. use at your own risk.
But please be a good beta tester and let me know yea or nay.

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This has worked reliably for me. I hope we can get some good feedback here.
If so I will do more cleanup and integrate it better into the system.

Robert

In the apparent absence of other beta feedback can I be the first to say "Yea". Thanks Robert, it works fine for me. A really neat demonstration of the power of lua-fltk, which I had never heard of until yesterday. I've already got a custom version of webdata that holds the URL and Username for my ftp space, to save me re-typing them. [A suggested luxury tweak would be to take the most recent user input - perhaps not the passwords - store them somewhere ( .webdatarc ? ) and present them as default choices at the next run.]

Personally, I am happier knowing how the data is encrypted and where it is stored using dsl+webdata than I would be with the slax+webconfig model where my data ends up on someone else's server.

Testing has been carried out using DSLv1.0 running 'embedded' in Qemu under Win2k.
Thank you. Thank You. Thank You.

Finally something other than  chatter; a real beta tester with meaningful results.

Yes, I will make persistent your URL and login so that you don't have to type it each time. This is currently a rough cut just to test the concept.

Personally, I think it is a great idea and have been using it since I wrote it last Sept.

I really want to integrate it into the base iso. The size of the lua-fltk is certainly tiny.

So, now I know it works for a least two people! :D

Any other real beta tester, PLEASE speak up!
Been playing with the Webdata Backup/Restore utility.

I am using DSL 1.5 Live toram (not frugal) on the client machine.

I setup an FTP server using DSL 1.4 on my local network.

I can successfully FTP the backup file to the server and it is written as  data.des  which is ~48Mb and written to RAM. (file size seems rather large!)

The FTP server is running  toram  from LiveCD. There is a hard drive in the FTP server, hda1.

I would prefer to have the  data.des  file written to hard drive vs. RAM.

What do I need to tweak to accomplish this?
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