[Server-devel] [sugar] Restoring journal entries (was Re: Backup And Restore Feature Documentation)

[Eben Eliason]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd be nice to architect this in a way such that someone without
> access to an XS could perhaps subscribe to an external service offered
> up on the Internet to achieve the same functionality. We had (long
> ago) a standing offer from Google at one point for such as service.

That could be nice.  I might be just as happy (or, happier?) with a
system (admittedly similar to Apple's Time Machine) which would allow
one to declare an external hard drive as a backup device, and then
automatically handle backups to that drive whenever it is plugged in
(just as we hope to have the XOs automatically backup to the school
server).  Anyone (I'm thinking G1G1) can get their hands on an
external hard drive; there's much more overhead involved in a network
backup in terms of accounts, agreements, bandwidth, etc.

The benefit to the Google solution, of course, is that it might serve
as a second tier for kids in schools as well.  Essentially, those
without a school server would just skip the intermediate step.

- Eben


> -walter
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>>> these questions depend on the actual code that performs the restore.
>>> I'm going to comment on what happens when the user clicks on an entry
>>> from Browse (the only restore mechanism that is available today).
>>
>> Tomeu and I had a quick chat about this.  A 'full restore' could be
>> done from Journal via rsync+ssh with no changes on the XS side (at
>> least for some scenarios). If we are going to do it for 9.1, we should
>> be doing it now, not later...
>>
>> I am not sure how or when things will get prioritised for 9.1, but if
>> 'full restore' is a high priority ticket (which I am not sure about)
>> then we'd need to hear from Greg on this track, and have a bit of a
>> catch up to flesh it out.
>>
>> For some cases the XS will need changes, so it might be a good idea to
>> involve me as well (bear in mind I am in a tight release cycle right
>> now though :-) so my time's a bit squeezed...)
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>>
>> m
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