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williwaw

that worked. had to find xdialog online and create the link /bin/xdialog3

is this intended as a puppy app?

williwaw

See first post for 250126 improved version 3 which adds user restore naming.

wizard

works with vanilladpup 10.

appending to the folder name is nice, but should one be able to just rename as desired without retaining the originalname+RESTORED?

perhaps ask for a new name and a yad message if ...

williwaw

Governor wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 3:47 pm
I always seek to make things better, that is my nature and apparently, I can't help it.

some folks are working on pupsave backup things , but you seem to have left the room. have you made a github account and read the tutorial?

williwaw

using vanilladpup 10 xwayland (Bookworm)
unsure how to procede
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xdialog

/mnt/sda2 $ apt install ./savefolderbackup*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'savefolderbackup' instead of ...

williwaw

How long will we be allowed to continue?
more here:
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews

distrowatch refuses to connect with chromium-ungoogled here. firefox ok
whats up with that?

to be fair, distrowatch is not the only site that refuses connections from chromium ...

williwaw

as for being able to name a backup, geo_c suggested a good use case

this suggestion is withdrawn,
although this app as presently configured could be used to create alternative saves, it should not be advertised for that purpose.
all backups should be compressed with no choice to create an ...

williwaw

The only thing close to restoring is UN-compressing a compressed backup save, so it can now be used as a save to boot with.

uncompressing and not deleting the compressed backup should be the action, retaining the compressed backup for another day. Other wise the program would have to explain ...

williwaw

pepperi wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:31 pm
Fascism/Oligarchs/Putin....it's all there with trump and the world is going to change forever.....GRRR

and that's your truth?

williwaw

withdrawn

williwaw

@williwaw

Set up your files and directory structure for building the sfs, then in Rox , right click the directory and choose: dir2sfs.

wizard

thanks wizard. vanilladpup doesnt have /usr/sbin/dir2sfs in the right click "context" menu, but it is easy to add using the "customize menu" feature ...

williwaw

Its been a while since I used Puppy extensively, but have been recently in order to follow along with the recent backup and restore topics.

Some apps nowadays are bigger than Puppy, so I have been maintaining dedicated savefolders for using when using larger apps. Loading and unloading sfs's seems ...

williwaw

This is NOT about Biden or ANY other mythical 'dream' person in out past. That conspiracy you mention has NOTHING to do with how this product, its founder, and how past corporate regulations will NOT apply to this device.

When you're in govt, you dont regulate yourself ... you can regulate ...

williwaw

I am thinking that Puppy is updating my pupsave on disk before saving the backup. Is that correct, and can the on-screen message be made less confusing, ie more specific?

pupsave backup calls /usr/sbin/save2flash when running in pupmode 13 and changing the dialog would be something to change ...

williwaw

I can also think of many corner cases for various types of puppy installs or user preferences, but I hesitate to ask for features without knowing the project's scope especially if I cannot contribute the code.

williwaw

interesting stuff

am listening to others at http://www.websdr.org/

williwaw

But WAIT! There's more ...

(while clarity twiddles the coat hanger antennae on his tinfoil hat)

williwaw

it's like coke and pepsi

williwaw

Clarity wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 5:42 am
r "WHY? ..." why this product considering that NO other product from him was 'ever' created and sold at a loss for each unit?

because there is more profit in selling the information it collects

williwaw

I'm still uncertain about where to add Puppy menu scripts into the grub.cfg in Mint, and which grub.cfg to edit as there are several.
So far, in an early try or two, editing the grub.cfg in /boot/grub/ in the Mint partition, I'm not seeing them in a new grub.cfg after I run 'update-grub' in a ...

williwaw

(a) a script which will first open Lxterminal and have it run a script; or (b) have the Exec line open Lxterminal and open another application or script? AND KEEP IT OPEN?

#!/bin/sh
urxvt -hold -e myscript

https://passwords-generator.org/
is a nice html password generator that you can save ...

williwaw

If you do not want to see backups to select. Place them in a location the boot process will not see them. (not the same location as the normal save)

the idea was that the backup utility, by compressing all backups by default, would remove them from view in the list of saves at boot time ...

williwaw

You either take away flexibility and change it into a rollback script, or leave options,

why either or? I think it is a shame to work on the app without adding a restore feature, but I admit the scenarios thus far proposed havent quite worked out the logic correctly yet. Lets wait for the OP to ...

williwaw

yes, if your present corrupted session wrote to ram after you uncompressed then the corruption you are trying to restore from would be perpetuated.

maybe the command to uncompress/restore should actually happen after any saves at shutdown or perhaps at the next boot.

williwaw

which in that case would be acting like a restore function.

but doesnt pupsave backup need a restore function, and is this not how you can implement it?

overwrite the original save while running....

well, that would be very offputting to new users, crashing the whole sytem beyond ...

williwaw

cloning has different meaning to different people. cloning can mean to duplicate a disk image to a different disk, and if this is what you want to do then you may have problems if you boot from your USB on a machine that has the same disk image on an internal drive.

I think tho, that you are asking ...

williwaw

geo_c wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:53 pm
which in that case would be acting like a restore function.

but doesnt pupsave backup need a restore function, and is this not how you can implement it?

williwaw

some suggestions if it doesnt work
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 1a6419xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

nousbwait=5 is a parameter I am not famlier with but it needs to be #nousbwait=5 on the 5th line

the edit function on the boot screen lets you make one time only adjustments to your ...

williwaw

if there is a backup routine, then it follows that a true user friendly system would also provide a restore routine. That script seems easy enough to write, just have it uncompress the file (or not if it's not compressed) and rename the folder or file appropriately..

If each backup is ...

williwaw

yes, that seems how I would do it.

williwaw

It should ONLY point to this forum, nowhere else - that was always its intention, after all - and link to the five main sections, along with one for those who just want to dive-in & browse through everything .

NOTHING ELSE.

why can't each each project on the landing page contain a link to ...

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