[sugar] Restoring journal entries (was Re: [Server-devel] Backup And Restore Feature Documentation)

[Walter Bender]

I'd be nice to architect this in a way such that someone without
access to an XS could perhaps subscribe to an external service offered
up on the Internet to achieve the same functionality. We had (long
ago) a standing offer from Google at one point for such as service.

-walter

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>> these questions depend on the actual code that performs the restore.
>> I'm going to comment on what happens when the user clicks on an entry
>> from Browse (the only restore mechanism that is available today).
>
> Tomeu and I had a quick chat about this.  A 'full restore' could be
> done from Journal via rsync+ssh with no changes on the XS side (at
> least for some scenarios). If we are going to do it for 9.1, we should
> be doing it now, not later...
>
> I am not sure how or when things will get prioritised for 9.1, but if
> 'full restore' is a high priority ticket (which I am not sure about)
> then we'd need to hear from Greg on this track, and have a bit of a
> catch up to flesh it out.
>
> For some cases the XS will need changes, so it might be a good idea to
> involve me as well (bear in mind I am in a tight release cycle right
> now though :-) so my time's a bit squeezed...)
>
> cheers,
>
>
> m
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