Backing Up A Save File
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This topic assumes you are using one of the recommended distros or remasters.
When you are customizing your system, experimenting, installing new programs, you should Backup First.
Since Puppy stores your changes in the save file, it is the file that has to be backed up.
First Backup of a Save File
click Menu>Utility>Pupsave Backup
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Write down the directory shown in Save backup to mnt??. Be sure your drive has the free space shown in MB required.
Note the Backup file name.
click Backup
click No, DO NOT compress the first backup
click OK
open Rox file manager
press the / key, a Goto box will open at the bottom of Rox
backspace over any text in the box
type in the Save backup to /mnt/?? you wrote down
press Enter
You will now see your Save File and the new backup.right click the backup file
choose Rename
In the example below we are going to rename:
fossapup64save.3fs.BKP-2022.03.02-14.05 to fossa64/fossapup64save-bak.3fs
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Now when you reboot you will see a "personal file" choice menu that list
your normal save file and your -bak file that can be selected if needed.
CAUTION- Pupsave Backup creates another new dated file each time it runs, these can take lots of drive space, be sure your drive has enough (you can store backup files on other drives).
If you do additional backups and you want them to show in the "personal file" choice menu, you will need to rename them too. The -bak can be changed to suit.
If you compress a backup it will have to be extracted, renamed and placed in the directory with the other save files before it can be used.
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