Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3018 Location: Oregon

One thing that would be nice to have added to your script just after the line that clears the temporary file of the word "Done" after it is displayed for 4 seconds would be to add a line

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 1447 Location: England

don922 · Last edited by don922 on Fri 23 Sep 2011, 01:00; edited 1 time in total

Puppy 4.12 frugal install

Downloaded and extracted hotbkp.tar.gz to ~/my-applications. This resulted in one file named Pupsave-backup in ~/my-applications.

There is no menu entries and when I click on the file nothing happens.

In the console

Baldlygo · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 67 Location: Le Dorat, France

Just tried this hotbkp on my lupu520. It starts the gui OK and sees the right save file but then just stays there without showing any more info or allow any other clicks.

I do have Bash 3.00.16. Could my problem relate to me upgrading to gtkdialog3-0.7.20-patriot-e-1.pet ? (which I did to get lameSMBxplorer-0.2.3a.pet to work)

Paul

2byte · Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 356

Hello Baldygo

The utility was built for official 4x series pups and many things have changed since then. I'll take a look at upgrading it for 5x series, but no promises.

I do not recommend downgrading bash or gtkdialog in order to use this utility!

Baldlygo · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 67 Location: Le Dorat, France

Thanks for quick reply Zbyte - I will be very keen to use it if you do upgrade.

Paul

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3018 Location: Oregon

Baldygo,
I run Puppy Lucid 520 with half of creation installed.
I do not understand why you say you had to upgrade gtkdialog3 as the Patriot version is already in by default.
Are you sure you have not installed a Pet of the development gtkdialog?

Also, Pupsave-backup works just fine for me.
Remember to save outside of your lupusave file though.

I will check on that to see.
I am back from running Pupsave-backup with the latest gtkdialog.
It works just fine.
So it must be something else you have installed that is causing problems or just maybe you got a bad download of hotbackup.
Try downloading and installing it again.

Baldlygo · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 67 Location: Le Dorat, France

8-bit - I could not get lameSMBxplorer-0.2.3a to work and the console told me that gtkdialog3-0.7.20 was required. I found the gtkdialog3-07.20-patriot-e-1.pet, installed it and the xplorer and mount worked ok.

Please can you tell me how I can find "the latest gtkdialog" as a pet or how I can install it?

Paul

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3018 Location: Oregon

Where did you find that gtkdialog3.pet?
I want to check with your pet of it as I still do not think gtkdialog3 is the problem.

I just downloaded the beta version of lameSMBexplorer that you did and it works fine with gtkdialog3 that comes with Puppy Lucid 520.
So it sounds like your problem is somewhere else.
As to the latest version of gtkdialog, check with 01micko as it is a compiled binary file.
But as I said, I cannot seem to duplicate your problem with the applications and the only difference I can see is the strange version of gtkdialog3 you installed.

Baldlygo · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 67 Location: Le Dorat, France

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3018 Location: Oregon

I have now run both Pupsave-Backup and lameSMBxplorer-0.2.3a on Puppy Lucid 520. Both ran fine with the version of gtkdialog3 that is included in Lucid 520 without installing anything additional.
In the case of lameSMBxplorer, it found my only network share so I assume it works.
And Pupsave-Backup created a pupsave backup just fine in /mnt/home.
Also, as I was saying, make doubly sure you select an area outside of your lupusave/pupsave file as you cannot back up your pupsave to your pupsave with any form of success.

Anyway, I would uninstall the gtkdialog3 PET you got from Barry's site and try again with the one that is part of Lucid.
Also remember that the lameSMBxplorer you installed is in beta and feedback from users is requested as to problems you may encounter.
Have you tried starting it from a terminal/rxvt/urxvt to see if any error messages appear?

Baldlygo · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 67 Location: Le Dorat, France

I've removed the Gtkdialog pet and lameSMBxplorer version with packetmanager. Then loaded an older version of lameSMBxplorer and that works ok for my network Linkstation.

When I run Pupsave-backup from the console it shows the gui ok - with savefile details but will not let me change anything. (eg location). When I quit the gui disappears but the console tells me it is repeatedly trying to cat a tmp file which does not exist.

I have run in ram and used a simple copy to a usb drive - which did not take too long and maybe is the simplest way to backup my 1G savefile.

Paul

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3018 Location: Oregon

I am curious as to why you are having problems.
In the first window that shows information, are you able to click on the folder icon and does it open a selection window?
Mine, when I start it looks like the attached jpg file. Pay attention to MB required and make sure it is less than MB available on xxxx.
If the destination does not have room, it will not work.

Baldlygo · Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 67 Location: Le Dorat, France

Well now it appears to be working for me Very Happy

May be I did not wait long enough for the folders to show. Also I seemed to have the cat problem Quiting without running backup. Then it would not run a second time without reboot. I'll have another look at that when my first backup is completed.

Thanks again - Paul

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3018 Location: Oregon

Your backed up lupusave file will have date and time appended to the file name. To restore to a backup, you would copy it to your frugal subdirectory using something like
"cp [location of backup]/lupusave.3fs.BKP-11.10.24.09.38 /mnt/home/[puppy directory]/lupusave.3fs".
I would recommend doing this with Puppy booted with pfix=ram added temporarily to the kernel line.