How To Debug The Backup App?

[Meanie]

I am trying to use the backuprestore application on my C3100 to backup the Z. However, it just gives me a message saying the backup failed after doing the usual backup thing and the harddisk light flashed for a while lookinh like it was creating the backup file but then towards the end it just sits there doing nothing until finally the error message appears. It worked before and I am not sure what I did to break it . Is there anyway you can find out what the backup apps was doing and why it failed, like turning verbose logging on or enabling a hidden debug mode in the app?

[Cresho]

i dont bother with it.  i use rar to pull out the files i lost.  you should use your commands to disable automounter(if thats the problem) before you backup.  i have been doing that without problems.

sorry-  i have no answer to your question but i just wanted to try and help.

[lardman]

Is there anyway you can find out what the backup apps was doing and why it failed, like turning verbose logging on or enabling a hidden debug mode in the app?

You were running it from the command line to see the stderr messages?


Si

[Meanie]

Is there anyway you can find out what the backup apps was doing and why it failed, like turning verbose logging on or enabling a hidden debug mode in the app?

You were running it from the command line to see the stderr messages?


Si
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I didn't output anything. I tried to redirect stdout and stderr to a file and nothing. But I figured out my problem anyway. I had a lot of files in /home/zaurus/tmp and after removing them all, backup worked again.

While debugging this, I found out how backuprestore actually works and what it does.

basically, all it does is generate a file called /etc/backupfile and then restarts qtopia. Qtopia detects the backupfile during restart and does a tar of /hdd2 and /home in the Backup_Files directory called year-month-day-hour-minute.backup_model-JP-1, ie 2005-11-14-21-22.backup_SLC3100-JP-1

so the backup is just a tar file, not even gzipped.