Because: ”Unlike #saveAs: do not transfer the default execution to the new image." So the startup and shutdown scripts won't be executed :) (Or that's what I understood) On Oct 24, 2013 1:54 PM, "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

Hi Bernat,

Interesting, I never heard of #backupTo:

But if recover.image is a copy of MyImage.image, and that last one failed to start up, why then would the copy not have the same problem ?

Sven

On 24 Oct 2013, at 13:32, Bernat Romagosa <tibabenfortlapalanca@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Hi list,

I've just recovered a broken image that crashed upon startup. There was some problem with a SerialPort that stayed open and tried to write/read into a physical port that didn't exist no more, or something of the sort.

So here's the magic line:

$ bin/myVm shared/MyImage.image eval "SmalltalkImage backupTo: 'recover'"

This makes a copy of the image into a new image called "recover.image", but as the documentation states:

Unlike #saveAs: do not transfer the default execution to the new image.

So there you go!

Hope it helps someone else. :)

-- Bernat Romagosa.

Yes, but you'll have the opportunity to fix whatever broke it before saving and opening the image again. 2013/10/24 Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>

Yes, I understand - I read that, but the next time you start your new recover.image they will run again, no ? Resulting in the same problem as the original image, or not ?

On 24 Oct 2013, at 14:34, Bernat Romagosa <tibabenfortlapalanca@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Because:

”Unlike #saveAs: do not transfer the default execution to the new image."

So the startup and shutdown scripts won't be executed :)

(Or that's what I understood) On Oct 24, 2013 1:54 PM, "Sven Van Caekenberghe" <sven@stfx.eu> wrote: Hi Bernat,

Interesting, I never heard of #backupTo:

But if recover.image is a copy of MyImage.image, and that last one failed to start up, why then would the copy not have the same problem ?

Sven

On 24 Oct 2013, at 13:32, Bernat Romagosa < tibabenfortlapalanca@gmail.com> wrote:

...

Hi list,

I've just recovered a broken image that crashed upon startup. There was some problem with a SerialPort that stayed open and tried to write/read into a physical port that didn't exist no more, or something of the sort.

So here's the magic line:

$ bin/myVm shared/MyImage.image eval "SmalltalkImage backupTo: 'recover'"

This makes a copy of the image into a new image called "recover.image", but as the documentation states:

Unlike #saveAs: do not transfer the default execution to the new image.

So there you go!

Hope it helps someone else. :)

-- Bernat Romagosa.

-- Bernat Romagosa.