[schooltool-dev] additional data.fs's

[Tom Hoffman]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Ignas Mikalajunas <ignas at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 00:39,  <jason.straw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can I suggest that we name those by evolution number/date?  otherwise the numbers have no meaning.
>>
>
> At the moment backup is kind of hacky, as we are using the log
> roration script, so if you know how to write a reliable backup script
> that also manages to find out the evolution number (we only have sh in
> postinst script) or at least format a date nicely, and gzip the backup
> - I'd gladly accept a patch. Just apt-get source schooltool-common and
> look for the postinst script template if you want to see how
> not-nicely it is being performed now...

Does it automatically gzip the second most recent backup or something?
 I'm just not sure about the pattern (I need to explain this in the
docs).

--Tom