Persistence fails

[hypersonic]

Ok. I've installed Tiny Core on USB. I just lost all my backup, simply by restarting the computer. The first few times it happened, I thought it was just some wrong configuration. This should happen?

[hypersonic]

Funny, this time my .filetool.sh is intact... Here is my .filetool.sh:

# tiny core persistence
opt
# xorg persistence
etc/X11/xorg.conf
# root password persistence
etc/passwd
etc/shadow
etc/gshadow
# rails persistence
usr/local/lib/ruby
usr/local/bin
usr/local/bin/install
# fluxbox persistence
usr/local/share/fluxbox/styles/darkmatter

So: opt, usr/local/bin, usr/local/bin/install and usr/local/share/fluxbox/styles/darkmatter was totally restored. File /usr/local/lib/ruby was partially restored (miss site_ruby file). And the rest was not recovered.

[gerald_clark]

.filetool.sh is meaningless.
The file should be .filetool.lst and it cannot contain comments.

[hypersonic]

Ops, its .filetool.lst... sorry. I removed comments, and I found a solution for another post. I suspected that this problem (about persistence) could be caused by backup files size (around 200 MB unpacked). Then by chance I found this wiki page: http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:extension_for_settings, and created an extension TCZ for ruby folder. So I really don't know if this problem is caused by backup size or the comments...

If help someone, I put how I did a TCZ extension of ruby file on this post: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11656.0.html

[hypersonic]

I was having this problem of backup loss before use comments in filetool.lst...

[gerald_clark]

You have other problems with your .filetool.lst.
opt should not be included as a directory.
You have directories and their subdirectories included.
You are not running a standard configuration, as you have not included home.

You probably had errors in it then too.

[hypersonic]

I don't see any errors beside that I've related, but thanks for the tip. Home is not included on .filetool.lst because its already persistent by extlinux.conf

[gerald_clark]

That's your problem. You don't see the errors even after they are pointed out to you.

[hypersonic]

I've seen the error in .filetool.lst, again, thanks for the tips. What I meant was that I did not see any errors that may compromise my normal use of the system. I'm no longer posting on this forum. Thanks all for everything

[gerald_clark]

opt in .filetool.lst will cause you many problems, as a restore will overwrite dynamic system information.
You must list each individual file in /opt that you wish to backup.

[Rich]

Hi hypersonic
You probably should not be backing up  /usr/local/bin. Any special reason you added that?

[hiro]

Since when are you supposed to put home in backup?

[Rich]

Hi hiro
If you have a non-persistent home, it should be in backup. In hypersonic's case, based on what
he wrote in another thread, he shouldn't.

[hiro]

I'm asking because I used to only put specific files/folders from my home folder in backup so that I don't have too much work putting all the others in .xfiletool.

[Rich]

Hi hiro
The stock  .filetool.lst  has  home  included  and  .xfiletool.lst  contains certain exemptions. This
serves as a good starting point for new users with a non-persistent  home  which then can be
modified to suit ones needs.