On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 20:31 +0530, K. K. Subramaniam wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2010 07:28:05 pm Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > All we need is a fast way to recover from disasters. A "panic button" > > which would reset all settings. It could be implemented in > > olpc-configure with 3 lines of code. In the absence of a recovery > > option, technicians resort to flashing laptops that have been tampered > > with beyond some point. > One simple way would to be save home directory into /var/lib/home-save.tgz on > issue and then restore it while booting: > > test -f $HOMEDIR/.dontrestore || tar xjvf /var/lib/home-save.tbz -C > $HOMEDIR ./
Users tend to fill up their home very quickly and we don't have 400-500MB of free space for an extra copy. We do, however, perform automatic journal backups on the xs. Only, we have problems with the restore procedure ;-) -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel