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BOINC for TC
thane:
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BOINC seems to work fine in TC despite what appear to be minor error messages on startup (slideshow files not found).
One problem though: BOINC and its project files are installed in directory home/tc/BOINC. A project that I recently added has some fairly large files and this makes the backup slow. Simply excluding the BOINC directory from the backup is not an option since there are files that should be saved on shutdown, and restored on boot. As a solution I'm thinking of creating commands to run on shutdown and boot that would copy the BOINC directory to my USB and back to home/tc respectively. I could then exclude BOINC from the ordinary backup process.
Is this reasonable? Any show stoppers? I've seen there are scripts that run automatically on shutdown and boot so would it be simply a matter of adding the appropriate copy commands to these?
combo3:
According to the install instructions:
"The BOINC working directory can be moved elsewhere as you like, and can even be renamed. One common choice is ~/.boinc, since files and directories with names that begin with "dot" do not show up by default in Unix directory listings. Whatever the name, everything related to the BOINC client is contained within that directory, and you should always run the client and the manager from that working directory."
thane:
Thanks for the reply.
I actually don't have a problem with the directory being installed in /home/tc/ since I'm not using persistent home (no hard drive, only USB). I'd just like to save it somewhere other than my regular backup.
I'll try copying it to my USB and back though and if that works add the commands to the appropriate scripts.
edit: Seems to work. Will do until I think of something else anyway.
thane:
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FYI for any BOINC users, the latest Linux version of BOINC appears to have issues with Tiny Core and a number of other Linux distros. It can't find some needed libraries. Several users have resorted to reinstalling an earlier BOINC version, although an alternative fix is presented here also:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=6554&nowrap=true#37872
Unfortunately, I downloaded the latest version and reinstalled after deleting the old one, so I'm SOL (not for the first time...).
edit: I reloaded the previous version of BOINC and it works. Meanwhile the developers have rolled back the latest release and are working on fixes:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=6554&nowrap=true#37905
Jason W:
I downloaded the version available on the project page 6.10.58, and it is working here. There may be some more library dependencies than with the previous version, but it appears I have them installed.
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