FYI, just saw this. The full thread is on dev-b2g[1]. [1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.b2g/1OUNmQ7ouPY/discussion
Begin forwarded message: > From: Frederik Braun <[email protected]> > Subject: [b2g] Backups for Firefox OS > Date: July 24, 2014 at 5:31:43 AM PDT > To: dev-b2g <[email protected]> > > Hi list, > > I am planning to spend a bit of my Q3 time to sketch out how to do > proper backups for Firefox OS. I can't believe nobody else has already > looked into this, so I'm looking to synchronize with you :) > > I guess most people currently either use the backup_restore_profile.sh > from the TWQA team[1] or pull selective files [2]. Which is sort-of > reliable as long as you don't move to previous versions[3]. > > I had a small chat with Fabrice last week and we thought about data > exfiltration and serialization. But doing that in a storage agnostic way > (for session/localeStorage, IndexedDB and what not) for every app could > be very cumbersome. Even more so if this would mean for the backup > service to execute script in arbitrary apps[4]. > > But let's step back for a moment and think about use cases. > * back-up the whole system. i.e., everything that is required to do a > full recovery from whatever broken state the phone is in. > * all apps and settings, not the system. > * apps selectively? (this might conflict with the intent not to execute > scripts within other apps. Or maybe through a "give me your backup > data"-call the app is responsible to support?) > > > Maybe you can up with some more? > > > Thanks, > Freddy > > > > > [1] <https://github.com/Mozilla-TWQA/B2G-flash-tool/> > [2] What I've seen so far is "adb pull /data/local; adb pull /data/b2g; > adb pull /system/b2g/webapps" > [3] IndexedDB schemas usually don't go back. > [4] This is a security nightmare. We really don't want to go there. > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ Dev-fxacct mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxacct
