DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Offsite config and /home storage
What if it was possible to "save settings/config" and restore from offsite. Eg. save and restore your bookmarks and files from a webserver...
Would it be possible to boot DSL from CD-ROM, and (at a low-runlevel) log into a web/ftp server, read saved settings from file, and use the server as /home??
Perhaps it would require booting into a "default" DSL, clicking on a desktop icon to run a script that gets a URL, username and password, reads the settings, then re-starts the appropriate services and changes paths...
If this, or a process similar was possible... then the business card DSL would truly become the "portable PERSONAL computer"!
Hey, I was thinking the exact same thing! Having a spot to enter a ftp/http server name, a username and password (like, maybe your personal web space your isp gives you?) and load it up! heheh
It sounds like a cool idea that could work for many poeple, but there is one "gotcha" that I can think of:
If you are a dialup/PPoE user, or someone with a static IP address, then you cannot connect to the Internet until your "saved" networking configuration is restored.
This leaves you in a "Catch-22" situation where you need an Internet Connection to restore your settings, but you need your settings in order to create an Internet connection.
However, this idea can work for users that have "hands-free" DHCP Internet access like Cable Modems, Home-routers, schools and businesses.
Do you guys read minds or do great minds think alike.
That is where I was headed next. With the myDSL concept and the factoring out parts of the filetool.lst such as network setup, Xsetup, and other base system stuff that would leave a much smaller "actual user files". Then those files can easily be stored remotely. I have been playing with ftp and wget for my mail, docs, and such. You can piece together this already after factoring your current filetool.lst then a smple script in /opt/bootlocal.sh to prompt and load and another script placed in /opt/powerdown.sh to save upon exit.
Really have to accept that Great minds think alike. Also it is good to know that there are so many great minds.
A long time back (may be around 6months ) I was using a distro named Flinix. This distro too had the option to restore settings from an ftp server.
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