[Sugar-devel] Proposing backup/restore as feature for 0.102

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Thanks Martin, good job.
looking forward to work with you in this topic.
I have added a few comments.

Gonzalo

PS: Probably I will not be available the next two days


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Martin Abente <
martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Gonzalo,
>
> I created this wiki page with some RAW thoughts about things we can
> consider for improving [1].
>
> Saludos,
> tch
>
> Refs:
> 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Backup_and_Restore/Enhancement<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Backup_and_Restore/Enhancements#Difficulties>
> s
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>wrote:
>
>> One of the features we want upstream is Backup/Restore of the Journal.
>>
>> There are already a page for this feature [1] but the currently only
>> is implemented
>> the backup/restore to a connected device (pen drive), and not to/from
>> the school server.
>>
>> I did the port to Sugar 0.100 of the code in dextrose, (patches [2] and
>> [3])
>> but still think need more work before pushing upstream.
>>
>> Here my comments/questions:
>>
>> * Right now, the access to backup/restore functionality is available in
>> the menu
>> of the connected device (see [4]). May be should be in the Journal button,
>> to allow other destinations in the future, like google drive/dropbox/etc?
>> Or should be as a option in the control panel? (If the control panel is
>> only
>> for configuration this may be not the right place)
>>
>> * The screen look alien [5]. Should be better if we add a toolbar or
>> should be in a modal dialog similar to the control panel/ object chooser?
>>
>> * We need a better icon.
>>
>> * The actual implementation have scripts to backup/restore from the
>> command line.
>> Then the sugar code execute the scripts, and the scripts execute tar. Is
>> needed
>> this indirection or should be better call tar from sugar?
>>
>> This implementation can be tested in our AU images [6]
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Backup_and_Restore
>>
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/godiard/au1b_rpms/blob/master/sugar/0001-Backup-and-Restore-to-a-mounted-device.patch
>>
>> [3]
>> https://github.com/godiard/au1b_rpms/blob/master/sugar/0001-Fix-backup-restore-functionality-SL-4616.patch
>>
>> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Backup_usb_menu.png
>>
>> [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Backup_before.png
>>
>> [6] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=0.100/Testing
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