[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Journal Volumes Backup and Restore

[Martin Langhoff]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Martin Abente
<mabente at paraguayeduca.org> wrote:
> Well, originally I added a XS backup and restore option (Journal
> Management) into the Control Panel. Even when it was not intended for
> upstreaming, I sent it to the mailing list, therefore a discussion started
> about where these backup and restore options should go. Finally, this idea
> of having the options in the resouces (volumes) palette was the most
> wanted.

By whom? ... what is the scenario where you need to click on the backup button?

[ The only one *I* know of is just before an upgrade... once a year? ]

> Not yet, it does a full restore from the one that is available on the
> storage device.

What worries me with this is that it _destroys anything done since the
last backup_.

> At first sight it seemed easy to just append data

It _is_ easy...

> to cover scenarios (Corner cases). Mostly the ones when you have to
> consider the very few space available

But the "full restore" case also has to handle low-disk-space. What do
you do when the data to restore does not fit in the disk? (For
example, because the user has downloaded & installed large
activities...)

cheers,


m
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