On 29 Dec 2013, at 20:40, Charles Steinkuehler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/29/2013 1:21 PM, Bas de Bruijn wrote: >> >>> I also tend to keep around a bunch of SD cards for experimenting, >>> some with JA4 and some with the plain UBC branch. >> >> Yes, I had made a mental note to buy some 4GB sd cards tomorrow. Is >> there a way to (easy) back up stable situations and when the water >> gets murky to restore them again? > > When I'm actively developing, I typically don't keep LinuxCNC on the SD > card, but mount a remote NFS share where I usually have multiple > LinuxCNC directories on various branches and/or in various states of > "working". Once your LinuxCNC build directory is on a powerful machine, > you can make rsync backup copies, LVM snapshots, or whatever you want > > LinuxCNC has a "run in place" feature, from the directory where you > built the code, just run "scripts/rip-environment" and you'll be setup > to run the build in that directory. Different shell windows can be > setup to run different versions of LinuxCNC. If you want to do this, > make sure to comment out where the rip-environment script is run at the > end of /home/linuxcnc/.bashrc! Thanks again Charles, I’ll have a look into that. Would an external disk like a seagate portable drive work as well? I’m running a MacBook Pro with linux under Parallels, but my macbook is not always in the vicinity of the BBB, Furtermore I have a mac mini server, but setting up NFS shares on that one seems more work than an external drive. > > -- > Charles Steinkuehler > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk_______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
