System Snapshot or Backup
Posted: Tue 24 May 2011, 05:27
Hi Everyone,
Love Puppy.
I have a range of old machines that have gone into disuse over the last 5 years due to hardware aging and lack of CPU/RAM resources. Stumbled onto Puppy trying to resurrect an old machine.
I have successfully installed Puppy and then Legacy OS on an old HP Vectra machine I had lying around. Both worked exceptionally well - boy, now I wish I never gave away all those old machines!
I ended up going to Legacy OS because the end user was a complete beginner. The profile ... a 74-year-old Nonna, new to computing. I rightly or wrongly took that Puppy is aimed at reasonably computer literate users that are less likely to do the wrong thing and Legacy OS more aimed at beginners.
I have spent some time tinkering with the Desktop and made it more 'newbee friendly' but expect a telephone call at sometime in the future stating that she somehow fried the desktop. Unique data backup aside*, what I would like to know is how to get what I have got, saved, so when 'that call comes' it is just a matter of sticking a disk in the CD tray, reinstalling the saved image and copying back her saved data**.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
PS. If anyone knows of a good menu manager for IceWM that would allow me to hide some of the more dangerous menu options, a link would be appreciated. I have looked at the 'menu' text file in the /root/.icewm directory but am a bit reticent about cutting out menu items. I note also that the logout/logoff options are also not found in this file and changing options in the associated configuration files do not appear to have an effect - hence the desire to locate a suitable editor.
Footnotes
* I will probably setup a backup script that works when she closes down the desktop. I have put an icon on the desktop to make it easy to select 'close computer' as the menu is a little tricky for beginners and may result in her logging off rather than turning off the computer, resulting in her being faced with a terminal prompt.
** Data will be saved to a separate partition on the HD using a backup script tagged onto the 'turn computer off script'
Cheers Simon.
Love Puppy.
I have a range of old machines that have gone into disuse over the last 5 years due to hardware aging and lack of CPU/RAM resources. Stumbled onto Puppy trying to resurrect an old machine.
I have successfully installed Puppy and then Legacy OS on an old HP Vectra machine I had lying around. Both worked exceptionally well - boy, now I wish I never gave away all those old machines!
I ended up going to Legacy OS because the end user was a complete beginner. The profile ... a 74-year-old Nonna, new to computing. I rightly or wrongly took that Puppy is aimed at reasonably computer literate users that are less likely to do the wrong thing and Legacy OS more aimed at beginners.
I have spent some time tinkering with the Desktop and made it more 'newbee friendly' but expect a telephone call at sometime in the future stating that she somehow fried the desktop. Unique data backup aside*, what I would like to know is how to get what I have got, saved, so when 'that call comes' it is just a matter of sticking a disk in the CD tray, reinstalling the saved image and copying back her saved data**.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
PS. If anyone knows of a good menu manager for IceWM that would allow me to hide some of the more dangerous menu options, a link would be appreciated. I have looked at the 'menu' text file in the /root/.icewm directory but am a bit reticent about cutting out menu items. I note also that the logout/logoff options are also not found in this file and changing options in the associated configuration files do not appear to have an effect - hence the desire to locate a suitable editor.
Footnotes
* I will probably setup a backup script that works when she closes down the desktop. I have put an icon on the desktop to make it easy to select 'close computer' as the menu is a little tricky for beginners and may result in her logging off rather than turning off the computer, resulting in her being faced with a terminal prompt.
** Data will be saved to a separate partition on the HD using a backup script tagged onto the 'turn computer off script'
Cheers Simon.