Thread: [Announce] BackupMenu - OS backup & restore | New version - Jul 9th(v1.1)
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jsbigs is offline jsbigs
2010-11-05 , 19:58
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#224
Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post
You may need to use gtar instead then - the busybox version is somewhat limited.



Sorry - looks like I missed that out in my instructions. You need to create a symlink so evkey appears where backupmenu is expecting it:
Code:
root
ln -s /bin/evkey /usr/sbin/evkey
Okay, now the key presses work - thanks for that. Next problem though:

Pressed "b" for backup
Pressed "q" for RootFS only (or the other keys for either OptFS only or both...same result)
Pressed "s" for sdcard

This returns the following error:

Error: 1 Last /usr/share/backupmenu/BackupMenu.item: line 1117: gtar: not found

and then a few seconds later the screen changes and I get:

Error: returned 127
Press any key to continue...

and then, if I try to do it all over again WITHOUT rebooting, I get:

cannot mount the RootFS

When I reboot, I can try it all over again but get the same results.

I've since run:

Code:
apt-get install tar-gnu
thinking that was the problem, but it was already installed.

Opening up BackupMenu.item with Leafpad and going to line 1117 reveals "Done". It says nothing about gtar, but then I'm not a programmer so maybe it refers to gtar somehow.

Ideas? (Thank you! I hope this helps others too.)