How are people using "cloud" mode?

[baz]

I have a persistent install for tce, opt and home and it works great. I am curious how people get by without such a setup. Do you re-download and re-install every app at every boot and reconfigure every setting? Do you "backup" all apps and all settings?

[tayloratosu]

I have set my tce directory to be a directory on the native filesystem.  Is that what you mean by a persistent tce?

I don't have a persistent home or opt.  My settings tend to settle down after a while and not change much, so I just manually run 'filetool.sh backup' whenever I make a change.

I also have a 'document' directory under my home directory; it's a softlink to a directory out on the native filesystem, so I guess that's persistent.

[baz]

Hey,

Yeah that's what I mean by persistent. I guess that circumvents the main questions I had regarding re-downloading apps and the like. Nice idea linking just a folder to the file system.

Baz

[thane]

I think almost everyone has a tce directory. Persistent home and opt are optional because the backup file saves the same areas (I don't use persistent home/opt because I save to a USB stick and want to minimize writes).

I boot base norestore if I want cloud mode to (say) try out an extension that I may or may not want. Of course then I have to reboot with normal persistence and download it again if I decide I want it.

[curaga]

I boot base norestore if I want cloud mode to (say) try out an extension that I may or may not want. Of course then I have to reboot with normal persistence and download it again if I decide I want it.

It may be copied from /tmp/tce/optional, to not need a re-download.

[thane]

Thanks, good to know.