**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Tue Oct 03 02:59:57 2006 Oct 03 04:45:36 hi all Oct 03 09:48:22 what is the best way to create a backup Oct 03 09:49:32 backup of what? Oct 03 09:49:39 everything Oct 03 09:50:09 basically so if my hd ever failed I could just plug in a new one and load a backup and be back to normal Oct 03 09:53:30 RAID 1? Oct 03 09:54:47 I considered mirroring, but I don't know how to set that up Oct 03 11:46:42 DrJ: when you find out a simple solution - tell me .. im dreading the day my beautiful setup breaks due to hd failure Oct 03 12:38:16 so am I Oct 03 12:38:46 * DrJ has spent tons of hours getting all the settings to where they are now Oct 03 12:38:51 and if they were to ever be lost Oct 03 12:38:59 or I was to do my usual thing and screw them up Oct 03 12:39:12 * DrJ would cry Oct 03 12:42:00 the next version should include a backup command Oct 03 12:42:39 like: backup Oct 03 12:43:04 considering half, or more, of us who use it are complete noobs to linux Oct 03 13:38:02 is it possible to get something like php-nuke installed on the nslu2? Oct 03 14:45:21 DrJ, don't know what is the best way, you can look at rsync, py-rdiff-backup, unison Oct 03 14:46:05 or py-mercurial for version control your settings Oct 03 14:46:26 I should rephrase my question Oct 03 14:46:38 what is the easiest way to create a backup Oct 03 14:47:53 try the three tools i mentioned above, easiness is subjective Oct 03 14:48:22 they all support incremental backup Oct 03 14:48:39 k Oct 03 14:48:51 I think I tried rsync once before and got lost in it Oct 03 14:56:10 with rsync, remember to ignore certain dirs though Oct 03 14:56:22 i.e. if you try to rsync "/" it will cause problems Oct 03 14:56:32 because you will be trying to rsync to a mounted drive Oct 03 14:56:46 which will mean you are backing up your backup Oct 03 14:56:53 and then your head will asplode Oct 03 15:15:21 Does anyone know how to enable "tab completion" on unslung6.8? Tried to get cdargs running, but when I had fixed all the dependencies it still wouldn't work. Shouldn't BASH support tab completion for most commands? Oct 03 15:17:09 BaMsE: I only had to install bash, after that tab completion worked like a charm :) Oct 03 15:20:12 Thought it was bash already. But installed it, and it still doesn't work :-( Oct 03 15:20:21 hmm Oct 03 15:20:24 have you started bash? Oct 03 15:20:32 install bash and then type "bash" Oct 03 15:20:37 BaMsE: did you read the wiki page on installing bash? Oct 03 15:20:46 hehe Oct 03 15:20:53 (the default shell is ash by the way) Oct 03 15:20:58 I missed that bash didn't start automatically on logon Oct 03 15:21:10 you need to updated your passwd files for that Oct 03 15:21:25 need to add that to.. yes, the passwd, you're correct Oct 03 15:22:14 at least it works now :-) Finally! I was getting crazy having to type the entire folder/file names all the time. Thanks!!! Oct 03 15:22:21 http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/Bash Oct 03 15:22:39 Thanks again! Oct 03 15:24:15 must confess that tab completion was what made me install bash too Oct 03 15:24:15 lol Oct 03 15:25:55 yeah, can't live without it, can you... Oct 03 15:26:09 same here :D Oct 03 15:28:18 should probably add /opt/bin to the path for root as well, and then I think I should be able to get along quite well with the little bugger Oct 03 15:29:28 hmm Oct 03 15:30:08 I have export PATH=/opt/sbin:/opt/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin in /etc/profile Oct 03 15:30:26 remember to backup your /etc/passwd before you reboot Oct 03 15:30:40 (if you're not sure how or where to, look at the wiki page for how to change your password from the command line) Oct 03 15:31:10 Tobbe: I don't even have an /etc/profile yet :-P Oct 03 15:31:38 ohh, ok :) Oct 03 15:32:16 That was one of the first thing I had to do, because I wanted to use nano, and nano needs it Oct 03 15:32:35 (you have to export TERM=vt100) Oct 03 15:32:41 Ahh, that's one more thing, I need to replace freaking vi with nano Oct 03 15:33:14 ipkg install nano Oct 03 15:33:51 http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/Nano Oct 03 15:40:57 cool Oct 03 15:45:34 grand, now it works! Oct 03 16:29:05 new user here, just installed openslug Oct 03 16:29:41 anyone awake? Oct 03 16:34:59 i am Oct 03 16:35:03 but i dont know openslug Oct 03 16:35:07 so i might not be able to help Oct 03 16:45:32 just trying to figure out why I can't format an attached USB drive Oct 03 16:46:13 is it mounted? Oct 03 16:46:18 how are you trying to format it? Oct 03 16:46:39 not mounted as far as I can tell Oct 03 16:46:55 tried both "mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1" and "mke2fs -j /dev/sda1" Oct 03 16:47:14 The OpenSlug firmware has its own #openslug IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. You can view the IRC Logs for that channel. If you are using the DebianSlug firmware without using the Debian packages, then you should also use the #openslug channel (it really should be renamed to #slugos now). If you are using the Debian packages (either little-endian or big-endian), then you should use the #debian-arm channel instead. Oct 03 16:47:15 both result in an error of "/dev/sda1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here!" Oct 03 16:47:22 just c+p that from the wiki Oct 03 16:47:32 they might know better :-) Oct 03 16:47:41 ah, thanks **** ENDING LOGGING AT Wed Oct 04 02:59:57 2006