Synchronizing xs-0.3 and xo-??? --- backups

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Martin Langhoff
>  I was actually referring to a case where the child wanted to do a
>  restore on their current laptop, rather than a new one, in which case
>  no new association is needed and it seems there wouldn't be any
>  XS-side requirements.  Perhaps this is an infrequent use case, in
>  practice?

Ah. Of course. The retrieval can happen via

 - Web UI - authentication TBA
 - Journal -

>  I don't know that it needs to be regularly.  Do you think we should
>  try to automatically discover when a new "restoration association" is
>  available?  It seems just as easy to me to require a simple manual
>  interaction in the XO UI to initiate the check.  Perhaps you could do
>  a check initially upon boot/login, so that in the case where a kid
>  boots up a brand new machine for the first time, and the association
>  has been made in advance, it runs automatically...

Boot-time sounds good to me :-)

cheers,



m
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