[Bugs] #1124 UNSP: Allow SoaS backup and restore from an XS server

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#1124: Allow SoaS backup and restore from an XS server
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    Reporter:  hamiltonchua               |          Owner:  tomeu                      
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:  r?                         |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |  
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Comment(by hamiltonchua):

 "In general, if this is deployed to machines that have been using current
 Sugar 0.82 it will fail :-/ because they have the info in the 'profile'
 object."

 I don't understand. Are you saying that even without the modificaitons I
 made, the backup scripts will fail in 0.82 or that it is because of the
 modifications I made that it will fail on 0.82. The original ds-backup.py
 scripts reads from a file in /ofw and I made sure that the only time it
 tries to look for the SoaS settings is if /ofw is absent.

 "rsync line: you are dropping -a and not telling us why. Unless justified,
 add -z to the mix, keep -a "

 Sorry, this is a typo on my part. It just keeps coming back doesn't it ;-)
 A new patch that I will upload will use -a not -z.

 "Why do you make skip_lowonbatt conditional? It _does_ have code for non-
 XO hw. "

 Because during testing we found that it doesn't work on some older desktop
 (no batteries) hardware. We were testing on some pentium 4 desktops and
 they silently fail that test.


 Thanks very much for taking the time to review and comment on the patches.
 I'll confer with my colleagues, will have a new patch with your
 suggestions soon.

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