[Server-devel] ds-backup - help with a trial happening right now

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> People do occasionally volunteer, you know. It's fine to say that _you_
> are too busy, but please don't speak for everyone.

Good point. In any case, there's better hope on devel@ where people
know more about the XO sw :-)

So copying devel@ - in a nutshell, Pia is in a deployment in Niue, and
asking for help backporting ds-backup-client to 703.

>>the internals of the datastore on the laptop
>>(datastore is the back-end of the journal) need an update that has not
>>been tested on 703.
>
> I believe that may be the only update made to the DS since 703 and I
> doubt it depends on anything but a JSON library.

To expand on that, and for anyone keen on trying, you'll need 703 plus...

 - simplejson (ISTR it's not packaged for F6, but a backport is possible)

 - datastore v8.2 or newer - this is the risky change, there is a
small chance that other parts of Sugar/Journal act up with it.

 - ds-backup-client 0.7

cheers,



m
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