[OLPC-AU] Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 25 September 2010

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 5 October 2010 17:27, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> The OLPC-NZ team regularly meets for testing sessions. Here's an
> example of their summaries.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tabitha Roder <tabitha at tabitha.net.nz>
> Date: 25 September 2010 20:10
> Subject: Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 25 September 2010
> To: OLPC testing <testing at lists.laptop.org>, olpc-nz at lists.laptop.org,
> Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au>, Walter Bender
> <walter.bender at gmail.com>, rtnpro at gmail.com
>
>
> Tested backup-4 and restore-3 on 2 XO-1.0s with 1 USB stick
> Backup: you have to choose the storage device then press the button
> that looks like keep
> it then says "backing up Journal to /media... etc
> Shows x/x number of files but gives no message to say when backup is
> complete, it did create a backup onto the usb and named it with the XO
> name and some numbers with .xmj extension
> Restore: opened activity and it says "no bundle selected. please close
> this activity and choose a bundle to restore from the journal"
> Tried to click on the file on the usb that says it is the journal
> backup for this laptop - it seems to open the restore activity but
> hard to tell as not labelled as such in the frame
> found a restore journal button in the activity, clicked it and get the
> message "restoring journal from
> /home/olpc/.sugar/default/data/" a whole lot of numbers then ".xmj"
> - that file location is not the usb drive, so we assume that opening
> the file on the usb is actually copying it to the journal
> Tried to restore the same journal file on another XO but it doesn't
> let you (deliberate we think)
> Second XO Backup: Tried backing up this second XO onto usb, then
> deleted most of journal. Ran the restore and it seems to work but it
> on both XOs we get two copies of the .xmj journal backup file in the
> Journal.
> Found another option for restore - in the Journal you can use the
> arrow right to get to the kind of more information view (with a
> preview, description and tags) and then where the play button (start)
> is a drop down option of restore appears
> Basically they worked, though it was a bit confusing that you don't
> open restore and then choose the file on the USB.  Some instructions
> for the user might be helpful - when you open the backup activity
> would be good to click a question mark and see explanation of
> activity, like what happens in the finance activity. Also, there was
> no obvious notification that the backup file creation was completed.

I can foresee the Backup and Restore activities being very useful for
schools. Some use cases:

  * backup without requiring an XS server
  * restore lost work
  * restore files if a child has had their XO replaced

I have created/updated some bug reports based on this feedback:

https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2370#comment:1
https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2409
https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2407
https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2408

Any assistance in fixing these would be greatly appreciated. The code
repos are at:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/backup
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/restore

For general info on these activities:

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4326
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4327

Cheers,
Sridhar


Sridhar Dhanapalan
Technical Manager
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Australia
p: +61 425 239 701
w: http://laptop.org.au