[Server-devel] XS - XO archiving and backup

[Greg Smith]

Hi Bryan et al,

FYI: there is some documentation on the backup and restore feature.

See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_Backup_and_restore_to_school_server

Linked from the 8.2 release notes: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0

I also added a link to that documentation in the 0.4 release notes:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Release_Notes#XS_0.4

FYI all, I moved this feature from 0.3 to the 0.4 section of the roadmap 
and moved SOTP from 0.3 to 0.5: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Roadmap

On backup and restore, aside from the comments already mentioned, I 
suggest you pay careful attention to the available space on your XS. You 
should have about 2GB free space on your XS for each XO. If you don't 
have enough space it may move some of the files over your wireless LAN 
then not save them on the XS.

For more background, see this thread: 
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2008-September/002058.html

Also, this feature is on by default when using XO 8.2 and XS 0.4. 
There's no GUI to turn it off but I assume you could disable it on the 
XS with a few manual changes to the config.

More questions and comments welcome.

Thanks,

Greg S

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> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:32:43 +0545
> From: Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Server-devel] XS - XO archiving and backup (was Re: [OLPC
> 	India]	Issues on the	ground )
> To: JV Avadhanulu <jv at auroville.org.in>
> Cc: server-devel <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>,	india
> 	<india at lists.laptop.org>
> Message-ID: <1226299663.9415.23.camel at hitman>
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> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 11:44 +0530, JV Avadhanulu wrote:
>> Dear Bryan,
>> I have a question.
>> Are children able to transfer files to the XS Server over Wi-Fi in your 
>> deployments?
> 
> Our deployments are still using XS-163, which does not have the
> xs-backup method. We hope to migrate to a newer version of the XS later
> this month.
> 
> To my knowledge, the XO's can back up to the XS but there still is no
> way for children to browse their backups or restore from them. My
> knowledge may be out of date though. Martin Langhoff knows much better
> than I.
>