<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">> > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > From: Bernie Innocenti <<a href="mailto:bernie@codewiz.org">bernie@codewiz.org</a>> > > To: Christoph Derndorfer <<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>> > > Cc: <a href="mailto:dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org">dextrose@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>, Sugar Devel > > <<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@olpc.at">christoph.derndorfer@olpc.at</a> > > Subject: Re: [Dextrose] Question about upgrading from 802 to > > Dextrose > > Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:01:04 +0200 > > > > On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 18:45 +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > > > as previously mentioned to Bernie I'm thinking about using the > > > international spin of Dextrose on the 25 XO-1s that we're using in our > > > Austrian pilot project. > > > > > > IIRC correctly those XO-1s are currently running 802 and now I was > > > wondering whether there was a way to upgrade them to Dextrose without > > > erasing the Journal (e.g. something like olpc-update but using > > > Dextrose rather OLPC's 10.1.2). > > </div>> > For the first upgrade in Paraguay, we used two very simple shell scripts > > to backup the journal to a tarball on a usb stick. > > > > The procedure was somewhat cumbersome: > > > > 1) plug in usb stick > > 2) open terminal > > 3) /media/USBSTICK/backup_script > > 4) wait > > 5) cleanly unmount usb stick > > 6) reboot > > 7) flash > > 8) boot into sugar > > 9) open terminal > > 10) /media/USBSTICK/restore_script </blockquote><div> Thanks a lot for these instructions. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> > > Of course, we did this only for specific laptops where the user wanted > > to preserve information. Many users were perfectly with erasing their > > journal completely. Some kids asked to save only one or two files. > > > > If you have a schoolserver, then you should already have daily backups > > even with 802. You're just missing a restore function. </blockquote><div> Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. If I remember correctly I had set up XS 0.5 at the school, how would I find out whether the backups were made and if so how do I restore them to the XOs after I install Dextrose on them? </div></div> Thanks again for all your help, Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a> e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a>