How to avoid an automatic backup during logout?

[mbertrand]

I know this topic was posted but it's been a long time ago. I've noticed that when I restart or shutdown that the default option is to do a backup first. I would like to default to NONE.
I've added a long time ago export BACKUP=0 in my .profile to make these changes but it does not seem to work?

[Rich]

Hi mbertrand
If your home directory is not persistent, did you remember to backup your  .profile  file?

[mbertrand]

Yes my .profile is backed up for sure

[polikuo]

Which arch/version are you using ?

I just test it on PiCore 9 and it's just fine.

The exittc checks for the environment variable "BACKUP", are you sure you've exported it in your .profile ?

exittc.cxx

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string backupDefault="1";
if ( getenv("BACKUP"))
backupDefault = getenv("BACKUP");


[Rich]

Hi mbertrand
I just realized you said:

I've added a long time ago export BACKUP=0 in my .profile to make these changes but it does not seem to work?

If this is really true, you should have replaced  export BACKUP=1  with  export BACKUP=0  in your  .profile  file since that
export already exists.

[mbertrand]

I've replaced with BACKUP=0 years ago and never realized when it stopped working until recently. I must add that we are still only at version TC 5.4.
If  I echo $BACKUP I get '0'.

[mbertrand]

Ummmm..... I decided to take chance and compile the latest exittc hoping I would not have any problem with newer dependencies. I was able to compile.
Still have the same problem. I'm executing it from a terminal and I can see that the BACKUP=0 .

[mbertrand]

Ok I know what is going on we have added the bootcode 'safebackup' a couple of years ago and exittc is looking for that and setting the backup option to 'safe'.