[Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore Feature added to Wiki

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Dave Bauer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 16:05, Greg Smith<gregsmithpm at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I created a Feature request for backup and restore here:
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Back_Up_and_Restore
>> Shouldn't this be already working in SoaS 0.84 with XS 0.6?
>>
>> May be waiting for someone to give it a tray. CC'ing Martin and Dave
>> who may have already tried it.
>
> We need 1) changes to allow registering soas to an XS
> 2) ds-backup-client patched to work on soas
> 3) ds-backup-client installed on soas.
>
> I believe there are outstandings tickets for this. I guess these
> changed need to be made in the fedora packages so we can pull them
> into soas.

Yup, there's a ticket: #916

Well, the "problem" is that ds-backup-* hasn't been packaged for Fedora, 
yet. I discussed this with Martin Langhoff (adding to CC here) at 
LinuxTag lately, and it shouldn't be a big problem to get the patches 
from Hamilton (in the ticket) applied and then a new RPM uploaded to our 
SoaS yum repo. I guess we'd need people testing this once it's ready, 
though.

--Sebastian

> Dave
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>>> I'm still not sure how to "tie" it to GPA or a release or pile of
>>> pending feature requests. If anyone knows the right wiki markup to do
>>> that, please go ahead. I'll watch what you do and use it for the next
>>> one.
>>>
>>> I made myself the "owner" but it should probably be someone smarter
>>> than me and able to program, maybe Martin...?
>>>
>>> Any comments or questions on the feature are welcome. It occurred to
>>> me as I was writing it that this problem must have been solved already
>>> in Linux. If anyone knows a good solution there, lets take it! That
>>> will solve most of the problem leaving us with the special case of the
>>> DataStore/Journal.
>>>
>>> Comments on format and more accurate filling out of the template also
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>>  From this list http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Goals,
>>> I'll work on "collaboration" next. That is such a tough nut that I may
>>> fill in a few priority B items too for practice.
>>>
>>> HTHs.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Greg S
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