My guess is it probably automatically scans a few typical devices (hda,
hda1, hda2, sda1 etc) looking for backup.tar.gz - not sure of the order
but would expect hda to be scanned before sda.
It's in fact scanning any device that's found at startup (all those in
/etc/fstab) for the file backup.tar.gz (see /etc/init.d/dsl-restore.sh)
Is Samba already installed on the SlimCD you have?
There's a SAMBA option, or at least so I thought - will need to check
as I might be confusing it with something else. What I need is a way to
get music *onto* the hard disk, so either SAMBA (to allow sharing over a
Windows network) or even an FTP server will do the trick.
Samba should be installed (but not configured) on the latest image. As is
rsync (which I use).
Hehe, sorry! :) I would imagine it will be essential to backup the
SlimServer folder assuming the user has upgraded the server to a newer
version than that on the CD. Can the backup of the database be an
option as I'm not sure I would want the database backed up to a USB
Keyring when it can be rebuilt at bootup - although removing it from
filetools.lst isn't a big deal for me and is a simple solution.
You already know the option :-). Backing up the slimserver folder takes
considerably more time and space than the database (but then it depends on
the size of your collection).
That said, I feel pretty mean asking if there is any possibility to
have a future SlimCD include an automatic ripping/tagging capability,
i.e. insert a CD and leave the machine to automatically detect the CD,
rip it, tag it, rescan etc.
I don't think this will make it before release 4.2 ;-) I thought about
such an application and have seen some before. But it would need
considerable development. And that's not what I am capable of doing. I'd
have a master degree in Copy/Paste if it existed (I'd never have passed
those latin classes some 20 years ago on my own). I do often understand
what others do and can copy their behaviour. But I'm not a real
developper. I didn't even create the boot screen's penguin myself :-).
As the SlimCD server I'm looking to build
will be headless this task will ideally have no user interaction...
would be nice if a message could be displayed on the Squeezebox(es)
when encoding is complete?
As soon as somebody created that plugin, I'll integrate it! As kdf and
others would say: patches and plugins are always welcome!
I'll have a play with Linux ripping/encoding myself in an effort to
have it work with SlimCD, but I'm not in your league - there's no way I
could have put together SlimCD for instance!
VMWare and Google are my most important development tools!
--
Michael
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