Applications/System Restore 0.1

To run

• Download files
• Change permission of .sh files to execute
• Run from command line or edit run_* files to point to the correct location (the script location is hard coded) and double click on the icons produced in the file manager.
• If running restore.sh from the command line note that sudo or gksudo must also be used.

Operation

• Only local storage works.
• backup.sh produces a text list of all the packages installed on a system.
• restore.sh loads in this list and runs apt-get to download and install packages.

To do

• Icons? (All icons can be customised)
• Change default file locations?
• More text/explanation required?
• More verbose apt-get progress meter? Current meter simply pulsates, gives no indication of what doing/how long remaining. Possible alternatives: display text progress in terminal, use debconf-apt-progress (terminal based gui), use synaptic or other GUI tool to some extent?

Dependencies

• Bash
• Zenity
• dpkg
• dirname
• gksudo
• sudo
• set

Next actions

• Receive feedback and update as appropriate.
• When acceptable consider network storage requirements of 0.2 version.