<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Tabitha Roder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tabitha@tabitha.net.nz">tabitha@tabitha.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi<br><br>Has anyone tried backing up the Journal to Google docs? A school told us they are using google apps (for education) and would like Sugar to store the Journal in Google clouds. Really, what they would like is a backup system so loss of the device doesn't mean the loss of all the student's work -- the school server provides a backup system, this may be sufficient. Does anyone have success stories we can show them along the "Little Johnny started learning how to customise his operating system now his XO won't boot, we reflashed it, and all his Sugar activity work was restored from the XS".<br> <div class="gmail_quote"> <br>I'm guessing tight integration with a cloud isn't a design goal of the school server but if it can hand off to the cloud this would make them happier. They have a google partner who can make at least some magic happen, does anyone have any pointers on how to do a feasibility study?<br> <br>Google Education Apps: <a href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html</a><br><br>Thanks<br>Tabitha</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> If Sugar on a Stick images are prepared with a separate, persistent Home directory (with the --home-size-mb option of livecd-iso-to-disk, or with the --copy-home option of <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone</a>, that allows one to share a customized Journal) then the entire, Home directory (with the Journal) can be backed-up, shared, or swapped by means of the /LiveOS/home.img file (an un-compressed filesystem package that is loop mounted in the LiveOS to provide the /home/ directory). The persistent home feature is available in all SoaS versions by invoking the livecd-ico-to-disk script. See <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01608.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01608.html</a> for patches that will make the copy-overlay and copy-home customization features more readily available.</div> <div><br></div><div>A cloud-based swapping service for home.img files seems quite reasonable for those with sufficient Internet bandwidth.</div><div> --Fred</div></div>