As someone dogfooding the latest dev branch, and not being a developer, I think backing up all apps (with settings) as well as phone settings as far as is reasonable would be most useful.
Thanks for taking the lead. *--Bitmessage <http://bitmessage.org/> me* *BM-2D97QV3Y4VRfjayrWahqE61XKuQw6dJvj6* On 24 July 2014 07:31, Frederik Braun <fbr...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > I am planning to spend a bit of my Q3 time to sketch out how to do > proper backups for Firefox OS. I can't believe nobody else has already > looked into this, so I'm looking to synchronize with you :) > > I guess most people currently either use the backup_restore_profile.sh > from the TWQA team[1] or pull selective files [2]. Which is sort-of > reliable as long as you don't move to previous versions[3]. > > I had a small chat with Fabrice last week and we thought about data > exfiltration and serialization. But doing that in a storage agnostic way > (for session/localeStorage, IndexedDB and what not) for every app could > be very cumbersome. Even more so if this would mean for the backup > service to execute script in arbitrary apps[4]. > > But let's step back for a moment and think about use cases. > * back-up the whole system. i.e., everything that is required to do a > full recovery from whatever broken state the phone is in. > * all apps and settings, not the system. > * apps selectively? (this might conflict with the intent not to execute > scripts within other apps. Or maybe through a "give me your backup > data"-call the app is responsible to support?) > > > Maybe you can up with some more? > > > Thanks, > Freddy > > > > > [1] <https://github.com/Mozilla-TWQA/B2G-flash-tool/> > [2] What I've seen so far is "adb pull /data/local; adb pull /data/b2g; > adb pull /system/b2g/webapps" > [3] IndexedDB schemas usually don't go back. > [4] This is a security nightmare. We really don't want to go there. > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >
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