Thanks Martin, good job. looking forward to work with you in this topic. I have added a few comments.
Gonzalo PS: Probably I will not be available the next two days On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Martin Abente < martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Gonzalo, > > I created this wiki page with some RAW thoughts about things we can > consider for improving [1]. > > Saludos, > tch > > Refs: > 1. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Backup_and_Restore/Enhancement<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Backup_and_Restore/Enhancements#Difficulties> > s > > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org>wrote: > >> One of the features we want upstream is Backup/Restore of the Journal. >> >> There are already a page for this feature [1] but the currently only >> is implemented >> the backup/restore to a connected device (pen drive), and not to/from >> the school server. >> >> I did the port to Sugar 0.100 of the code in dextrose, (patches [2] and >> [3]) >> but still think need more work before pushing upstream. >> >> Here my comments/questions: >> >> * Right now, the access to backup/restore functionality is available in >> the menu >> of the connected device (see [4]). May be should be in the Journal button, >> to allow other destinations in the future, like google drive/dropbox/etc? >> Or should be as a option in the control panel? (If the control panel is >> only >> for configuration this may be not the right place) >> >> * The screen look alien [5]. Should be better if we add a toolbar or >> should be in a modal dialog similar to the control panel/ object chooser? >> >> * We need a better icon. >> >> * The actual implementation have scripts to backup/restore from the >> command line. >> Then the sugar code execute the scripts, and the scripts execute tar. Is >> needed >> this indirection or should be better call tar from sugar? >> >> This implementation can be tested in our AU images [6] >> >> Comments? >> >> Gonzalo >> >> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Backup_and_Restore >> >> [2] >> https://github.com/godiard/au1b_rpms/blob/master/sugar/0001-Backup-and-Restore-to-a-mounted-device.patch >> >> [3] >> https://github.com/godiard/au1b_rpms/blob/master/sugar/0001-Fix-backup-restore-functionality-SL-4616.patch >> >> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Backup_usb_menu.png >> >> [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Backup_before.png >> >> [6] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=0.100/Testing >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > >
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