[Sugar-devel] Restoring the journal from an 0.82 image

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 01:50, Luis Michelena <luis.michelena at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have reflashed my XO (bettie given by Erik Garrison after his layout from
> olpc) with the 0.88 beta image(I have another, but has the Uruguayan ofw
> keys), and I'm amazed by the improvements.
>
> But I'd would like to restore the 0.82 journal to the new configuration, is
> the journal format in 0.82 compatible with 0.88?, to try to backport the
> backup/restore scripts to the 0.82?
> At the moment, I'm loop(mtdblock and block2mtd ) mounting the 0.82 image,
> but I haven't figured out how to copy the journal.

Hi Luis,

if you replace ~/.sugar/default/datastore with the contents of the
0.82 journal it should update it to the new DS format on reboot.

If it doesn't, it is a very important bug to report.

Thanks,

Tomeu

> Thanx,
> Luis
>
>
>
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