README

Welcome to ds-backup
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:Author: Michael Stone <michael@laptop.org>
:Date: July 02, 2008

ds-backup is a GPL-licensed collection of scripts for backing up and restoring
OLPC DataStore objects and metadata.

It was primarily written by

  Martin Langhoff <martin@laptop.org>

Please consider helping to improve ds-backup by adding features like

    * backup/restore to/from USB mass storage devices
    * backup/restore individual DS objects

Contributing
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The public fora that we frequent include:

  devel@lists.laptop.org
  #olpc on irc.freenode.org as 'martin_xsa' and 'm_stone'
  http://dev.laptop.org, user 'martin.langhoff' and 'mstone'

Source code is available at:

  http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/ds-backup.git           (browse)
  git://dev.laptop.org/users/martin/ds-backup.git                (clone)
  git+ssh://$USER@dev.laptop.org/git/users/$USER/ds-backup       (commit)

Since we use a distributed development model, you can send us your work in
several ways. We are happy to receive:

  1) a link to your clone of the olpc-netutils repository and a summary of what
     you'd like us to examine in it

  2) an emailed patch, preferably indicating the commit to which the patch
     should be applied

  3) general comments, questions, and reviews in any medium