When I was still at OLPC, we had an agreement with Google that we could use their servers for exactly this purpose.
-walter On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Frederick Grose <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Tabitha Roder <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Has anyone tried backing up the Journal to Google docs? A school told us >> they are using google apps (for education) and would like Sugar to store the >> Journal in Google clouds. Really, what they would like is a backup system so >> loss of the device doesn't mean the loss of all the student's work -- the >> school server provides a backup system, this may be sufficient. Does anyone >> have success stories we can show them along the "Little Johnny started >> learning how to customise his operating system now his XO won't boot, we >> reflashed it, and all his Sugar activity work was restored from the XS". >> >> I'm guessing tight integration with a cloud isn't a design goal of the >> school server but if it can hand off to the cloud this would make them >> happier. They have a google partner who can make at least some magic happen, >> does anyone have any pointers on how to do a feasibility study? >> >> Google Education Apps: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html >> >> Thanks >> Tabitha > > If Sugar on a Stick images are prepared with a separate, persistent Home > directory (with the --home-size-mb option of livecd-iso-to-disk, or with the > --copy-home option > of http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone, that allows > one to share a customized Journal) then the entire, Home directory (with the > Journal) can be backed-up, shared, or swapped by means of the > /LiveOS/home.img file (an un-compressed filesystem package that is loop > mounted in the LiveOS to provide the /home/ directory). The persistent home > feature is available in all SoaS versions by invoking the livecd-ico-to-disk > script. See http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01608.html for > patches that will make the copy-overlay and copy-home customization features > more readily available. > A cloud-based swapping service for home.img files seems quite reasonable for > those with sufficient Internet bandwidth. > --Fred > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
