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cory1492
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by cory1492 » Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:38 pm
I have recently made a native install of home 3.2 to my custom partition (the last 10 gigs of my F drive) and am currently doing the magic update for xorg.
It has taken about 7hrs to update and I was wondering if anyone knows a somewhat simple way for me to back this up (once the update is complete) in case my custom partitioning fails for whatever reason.
Aside from putting the drive into the PC, which to me seems a little complex, I was thinking there must be a way. Even if I have to put a burner into the xbox temporarily.
Thanks for any help
Xbox + X3 + 80GB Maxtor + Gentoox Home 3.2
No loopbacks, and I still have my F drive for xbox apps!
kirrilian
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by kirrilian » Sun Feb 06, 2005 3:40 pm
boot to a live linux cd that works on the xbox, then ftp the files to your pc. that would probably do it
nobspangle
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by nobspangle » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:57 pm
you just need to tar up everything on the filesystem.
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by ShALLaX » Tue Feb 08, 2005 2:01 am
Yep, boot resctoox.. mount your native partition, tar it up.. done.
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by nobspangle » Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:47 am
you can tar your system up whilst it's live, you just need to exclude /mnt and /proc
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cory1492
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by cory1492 » Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:53 pm
Nice, definitely a good starting place to learn more about *nix, figuring out tars balls and ftpds
Thanks for the nudge once again
Xbox + X3 + 80GB Maxtor + Gentoox Home 3.2
No loopbacks, and I still have my F drive for xbox apps!
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by ShALLaX » Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:42 pm
Ehhh, I hate doing that... IMO backing up a live FS is asking for trouble.
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nobspangle
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by nobspangle » Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:02 am
That's true, generally I keep a master backup of the system and then just make backups of configuration files and data whilst the system is live.
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