I wonder if anyone is already thinking about or working on backup and restore for QtMoko when upgrading - i.e. to maintain all your settings and data across an upgrade?
My thoughts so far on this: - Most non-system data lives in a separate partition, /media/card, and doesn't need handling because an upgrade won't touch that partition. - For the same reason, /media/card is a good place for backing up anything that does need handling. - Stuff that does need backup and restore is under /home/root: settings, email/SMS messages, spectemu ROMs, web browser stuff, and so on. Unfortunately this is a mixture of genuine user data and application-generated runtime state, and I think it would be better to let the new distribution regenerate the latter. So possibly that means that we can't just save and restore the whole of /home/root. But maybe the algorithm can be "save and restore the whole of /home/root except for a manageably small number of exceptions". - Maybe also backup and restore /etc/ssh/*key*, to avoid having to delete the old key on SSH clients? - It should be pretty quick and easy to write scripts to do this. A GUI would be nice, but that can come later. Thoughts? Does anyone already have such scripts? Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community