The object in the datastore is what you need. There are cmd line utilities for grabbing objects from the Sugar datastore. A bit awkward. Any reason you don't want to run a persistent image?
(If you use Turtle outside of Sugar (in gtk3) there is a separate save to file option.) On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 7:36 AM bodosugar <pn.fri...@xoxy.net> wrote: > > Hello, what I need is a way of backing up the whole state of the Turtle > Blocks activity, and a way of restoring such a backup. I'm perfectly OK with > doing all my programming using the Turtle Blocks activity on live Sugar (on > a virtualized x86-64 in my particular case). > > The use cases for that are multiple: > + protect my work against crashes, > + come back to a known good TB state after having rebooted, > + be able to resume work on a different live Sugar configuration, and > + be able to take my TB creations to a different VM running on a different > computer. > > All those needs would get addressed if someone could tell me "you can > capture the whole state of the TB activity by backing up such and such > file/sqlite rows/etc using the Terminal command line". It's easy for me to > get files out of the VM running Sugar, and back into it. My problem is that > I don't know *what* I need to back up. > > In particular, TB already has an option for saving a snapshot. All I see as > a result is the creation of a new journal entry. Maybe such a TB-created > snapshot corresponds to some files I can back up externally, then bring back > whenever needed? > > I hope this makes it clear. Thanks for the tip about saving Python, I might > need it in the future. > Cheers, > --Ken Irusta > > > > -- > Sent from: > http://sugarlabs.1511649.n2.nabble.com/Sugar-on-a-Stick-development-f3721053.html > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
