[Server-devel] back up script for the XO's?

[Bryan Berry]

thanks Wad, I will play w/ this today
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:42 -0500, John Watlington wrote:
> Brian,
>      I was supposed to work on that, but am overwhelmed with other
> tasks at this time.  Somebody else may already be working on this
> as well.
> 
> A very old/early set of scripts is at:
> http://dev.laptop.org/~wad/BackupScripts.tar
> 
> These scripts DO NOT use the laptops serial number as the username
> and their private keys for authentication (it uses a single key).    
> Simple mod.
> 
> These scripts DO NOT properly address where files are kept on a modern
> build.   Somebody from the Sugar/Activities team will have to provide  
> that
> info.
> 
> When registered with a school server, a home directory for each  
> laptop is
> created in /library/users/.   These scripts do not attempt to support  
> multiple
> backup copies.  The backup is simply contain the union of all files  
> ever backed up.
> 
> Please share your results back with the group!
> wad
> 
> On Feb 14, 2008, at 5:55 AM, Bryan Berry wrote:
> 
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Is there currently a script for the XO's that backs up the user's home
> > drive to the server?
> >
> > If so, would rather use one exists than write one myself.
> >
> > -- 
> > Bryan W. Berry
> > Systems Engineer
> > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
> >
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