Talk:Sugar on a Stick/deja-dup

Deja-dup Backup soas-v2-Blueberry

PRELIMINARY

Déjà Dup provides a nice graphical interface for backing up your SoaS live USB/SD installation

Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of doing backups the 'right way' (encrypted, off-site, and regular) and uses Duplicity as the backend.

Features:

• Support for local or remote backup locations, including Amazon S3
• Securely encrypts and compresses your data
• Incrementally backs up, letting you restore from any particular backup
• Schedules regular backups
• Integrates well into your GNOME desktop

Installation

• Download rpm to Your PC Desktop:

http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/packages/deja-dup-11.1-1.fc12.i686.rpm

• Insert Blueberry USB into running PC
• drag drop deja-dup-11.1-1.fc12.i686.rpm into opened USB on desktop
• safely close USB and remove it
• Boot PC with SoaS-v2-Blueberry USB
• In the Terminal Activity

su
yum install libnautilus-extension.so.1
cd /mnt/live/
rpm -uvh deja-dup-11.1-1.fc12.i686.rpm

How back up your Soas Mirabelle installation

• Insert a 2nd USB storage device (formatted fat32)
• In the Terminal Activity

  deja-dup

• Graphical application starts

Initial Configuration

• edit/Preferences (on top bar of window)
• Backup location: other / places /<your 2nd USB device> <open> (scroll up to find your device)
• Include files in folders ( Home folder is selected)
• Close

Backup

• in the Terminal (as the default liveuser account)

  deja-dup

• Graphical application starts
• Backup

Restore to a new replacement SoaS live USB device

• In the Terminal Activity

  su

  yum install duplicity deja-dup

• Repeat initial configuration (listed above)
• Insert 2nd USB device with backup done previously
• In Terminal

  deja-dup

• Graphical application starts
• Restore

Notes

• Use a dedicated USB device for Backups for EACH Live USB device you are working with.
• Keep and mark them in pairs.

• Backs up and restores

/usr/share/sugar/activities
/home/liveuser/Activities
liveOS and syslinux directories
  (Overlay-live-xxx (persistence)
   OSmin.img Squashfs.img files

• Does Not back up the Sugar Journal

• Use the same soas.iso to make a replacement USB device for Restoration.

• Can be sugarized Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/Variations#How_To_Sugarize_liveusb-creator so it will appear as an installed application in the Home view of Mirabelle.

• Sugar Clone, Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone, will duplicate a live SoaS installation.

References

http://launchpad.net/deja-dup