Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deja-Dup (duplicity) as a way to backup-restore Soas Mirabelle Home directory

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bernie Innocenti wrote: El Mon, 17-05-2010 a las 15:20 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard escribió: I am still thinking of the "sneakernet" use case where there is no networking to use for backup. It does NOT backup or restore the journal. (It will restore to a new unchanged script created USB. (I

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deja-Dup (duplicity) as a way to backup-restore Soas Mirabelle Home directory

2010-05-17 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Mon, 17-05-2010 a las 15:20 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard escribió: > I am still thinking of the "sneakernet" use case where there is no > networking to use for backup. > > It does NOT backup or restore the journal. > > (It will restore to a new unchanged script created USB. (I am still > testing)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deja-Dup (duplicity) as a way to backup-restore Soas Mirabelle Home directory

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bernie Innocenti wrote: El Sun, 16-05-2010 a las 11:30 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard escribió: Bernie; Will you make a .xo or rpm of your backup for standalone instances of Soas? All we need is a new control panel item in Sugar and add 3 scripts to ds-backup-client. I'm attaching patche

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deja-Dup (duplicity) as a way to backup-restore Soas Mirabelle Home directory

2010-05-17 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sun, 16-05-2010 a las 11:30 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard escribió: > Bernie; > > Will you make a .xo or rpm of your backup for standalone instances of > Soas? All we need is a new control panel item in Sugar and add 3 scripts to ds-backup-client. I'm attaching patches to do both things. You can

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deja-Dup (duplicity) as a way to backup-restore Soas Mirabelle Home directory

2010-05-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bernie; I wrote a preliminary guide here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/deja-dup Seems to work fine. Restores a new script built USB to the conditions of an older one that had a lot af extra applications. A real restore! Notes: * Backs up and restores /usr/share/sug

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deja-Dup (duplicity) as a way to backup-restore Soas Mirabelle Home directory

2010-05-16 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Bernie; Will you make a .xo or rpm of your backup for standalone instances of Soas? deja-dup, when aimed to a 2nd USB, seems to restore both the /usr/share/sugar/activities and /home/liveuser/Activities to the condition they were in when backed up. I have deleted entries in both and they wer

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deja-Dup (duplicity) as a way to backup-restore Soas Mirabelle Home directory

2010-05-16 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 15-05-2010 a las 14:00 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard escribió: > I just backed up and then restored the home directory of my f13 RC3 soas > spin 4GB USB to a 2nd 4 GB USB. > * looks like it worked. Still testing. > > # yum install duplicity > # yum install deja-dup > > http://live.gnome.org/

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deja-Dup (duplicity) as a way to backup-restore Soas Mirabelle Home directory

2010-05-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Saturday, May 15, 2010, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > I just backed up and then restored the home directory of my f13 RC3 soas > spin  4GB USB to a 2nd 4 GB USB. > * looks like it worked. Still testing. > > > This looks like a possible candidate for a future sugarized application. I look forward

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deja-Dup (duplicity) as a way to backup-restore Soas Mirabelle Home directory

2010-05-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I just backed up and then restored the home directory of my f13 RC3 soas spin 4GB USB to a 2nd 4 GB USB. * looks like it worked. Still testing. # yum install duplicity # yum install deja-dup http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup https://launchpad.net/deja-dup > Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup usi