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

[Dave Bauer]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Martin
Langhoff<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I'll look at the patches and see about merging them in a
> ds-backup-client that works on both old and new Sugar. If it all
> works, I'll update the rpm packages. They won't be in Fedora repos,
> but I'm the maintainer of them. Sebastian seemed happy with such
> arrangement.
>

Ok thanks for that information. That works for me. We will be ready to test it.

> IMHO, to make this work really well from a user PoV, we'd need a Sugar
> control panel that exposes:
>
>   - when was last successful / complete backup
>   - "backup in process" status
>   - "start backup now" button
>   - "full restore now" button (hooked up with dsd's scripts?)


Thanks for those ideas. I think that might be someplace I could learn
Sugar development.

Dave
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
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