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.

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