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

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Tue Nov 12 21:46:38 EST 2013


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Thanks Martin, good job.
> looking forward to work with you in this topic.
> I have added a few comments.

Me too.

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

Me too.


BTW, started writing up some notes on the new features for testing
[1]. We need to write up how to do that testing.

-walter

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.100/Testing#New_features_to_test
>
>
> 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/Enhancements
>>
>>
>> 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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