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 <tibabenfortlapala...@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.
