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Project:
Quickstart: Prebuilt Drupal Development Environment
Component:
Image Build
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Normal
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Support request
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Created:
22 Jan 2012 at 22:27 UTC
Updated:
14 May 2012 at 16:55 UTC
Hi,
how I can export the data from the VirtualBox-Image for stand-alone usage? I've tried to backup the whole system data from / with deja-dup - but there were errors. So it seems that deja-dup is not such a good tool, like timemachine on mac.
Comments
Comment #1
MichaelCole commentedHi Jepster,
You can use the virtualbox admin interface to accomplish this.
File -> Export Appliance
Then on another computer
File -> Import Appliance
You can shrink the resulting image by running:
$ bash ~/quickstart/export.sh
Does that help?
Comment #2
jepster_Hi Mike,
thank's for your answer. But I'm interested to use quickstart outside of a virtual machine. just ubuntu on it's own computer.
Comment #3
drupaljohngo commentedTurney linux has an interesting article:
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/convert-vm-iso
If you get it to happen, I'm interested in Quickstart on my laptop.
Now, I'm struggling with Drubuntu scripts. Almost finished
but the installation is having many an error.
Comment #4
drupaljohngo commentedCould you network to another machine with it's drive formatted
and a super grub disk as start up. Copy the files from VBox to
formated machine either thru a terminal of some other means. And update
the kernal. Perhaps? Live USB for the later Ubuntu 12 has a frightening amount
of options. Customize it with some networking tools and I'm sure it's possible.
Comment #5
drupaljohngo commentedhttp://www.howtogeek.com/howto/21257/transfer-a-drive-image-over-a-netwo...
basically network Quickstart to a SSH connection of the other computer. or find a conversion tool for appliance to a compatible dd image and do the same thing. Theoretically drag and drop.
Comment #6
drupaljohngo commentedI'm noticing that the new versions of Virtual Box have a Live CD option. Clonezila or
Ubuntu live CD could enable the ability to copy the drive image. I'll give it a
try in virtual land and then get Quickstart as my principle OS on a working Laptop.
Stay tuned.
Comment #7
drupaljohngo commentedYes the live Cd is slow. My Quickstart is now 17gb. I'll try this on a new Quickstart,
Comment #8
jepster_Someone in the IRC told me, that if you transfer all data from your ubuntu HD, you have probably a problem with the drivers. How I can access all files and folders of my virtual machine, not starting the virtual machine itself? Because it seems, that I cannot save the entire system, beeing in ubuntu. The system writes files, if it's running and the backup breaks.
Comment #9
drupaljohngo commentedI've worked installing this as a physical OS for a few days. I cherry picked certain scripts for installation on a clean lap top with both Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and then decided on Pinguy OS 11 . It was not with errors and I don't recommend trying it without opening up the bash scripts and really understanding what each installation is doing.
The major problem was xhprof which isn't necessary for most. It is running well now.
Keep in mind permissions and run a virtual box version of quickstart to compare the setup.
The advantage to Pinguy OS is all the bloatware that is installed that is simply useful. Opening gedit or anything else for that matter as root is a right click of the mouse. The OS is based on Ubuntu 10.04 so is very compatible with Quickstart. I installed the Helios PHP IDE but the learning curve was a bit steep. I decided upon KomodoEdit 7 which is more familiar and am now configuring firebug for drupal with errors/blank screen of shame.
The advantage of having a laptop with quickstart is great. The virtual host config functions with wordpress as well. Simply delete the installed drupal directory and replace with a wordpress installation. Config the database as normal.
Comment #10
mike stewart commentedThe quickstart image is built by:
sudo apt-get install gitCaution: Quickstart is inherently insecure and I don't recommend using the scripts for your own setup without customization to make them more secure.