> 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" <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> 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.
>
>