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

[Caroline Meeks]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Dave Bauer <dave at solutiongrove.com> wrote:

> 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?)
>

We should get this into a ticket on dev.sugarlabs.org

>
>
>
> Thanks for those ideas. I think that might be someplace I could learn
> Sugar development.
>
> Dave
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > martin
> > --
> >  martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> >  martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
> >  - ask interesting questions
> >  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
> >  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
> >
>
>
>
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> Dave Bauer
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