Can i Copy & backup my finished & updated Fedora 10 Live Usb?

[andyhavoc]

Hello,

For 2 days now i have been updating my installed usb fedora 10,
and after installing nvidia drivers, and clicking on display to fix the resolution,
it freezes, and upon restart, i cant even log in to the GUI of Fedora.


So here is my question:

Now that i have updated and customized my usb Fedora 10,
if i go into windows, and copy paste the entire usb contents,
the next time my usb OS craches, can i format my usb,
and then just copy paste the backup i made on it, and have all
the customizations and updates?


Or is there another way to back up things from my usb?
I just have been tired of reformating 3 times a day and updating 400mb data for 2 days.

Any help will be appreciated.


Thanks,
Andy Havoc

[barf]

Stop updating it, it will break. You can add packages but don't do a full update.

[poppo144]

the easy way to back up your updated USB is copying the file named overlay-.... in your LiveOS directory. if you are running the live USB this file is in /mnt/live/LiveOS. one problem of live USB is that you must prepare enough persistence overlay space if you need to update or install your packages. small persistence will result in a crash. in that case you can copy that file back to the LiveOS directory.

[loejf]

Hi.
Does anyone know, how to get data out of the overlay file?
I´m not able to use, even not if I make a new key, and copy it over at the usb.