We implemented a new feature for our PASSDORA Box. Passdora is a Raspberry Pi based system which hosts the Sequry password-manager.
New Features
What feature(s) did you add?
The Passdora system offers a function to create backups, so the users' data isn't lost if the system drive fails or some other fault causes data loss. So far the files saved in a backup had to be copied back onto a new system manually. Since the backup is encrypted, compressed, contains a lot of files and even a database dump, the manual restore is too complex for a regular user. In order to simplify that process, a feature should be added that only requires a backup file and the key used for encryption to restore the system back to the state of that backup.
Reasons
- system needs a function to restore backups
- manually restoring a backup is too complex
- automation required
How did you implement it/them?
add a dialog that asks for a backup file and it's restore-key:
upload the backup to the system
ajax/upload.php[link]
try to decrypt the backup with the given restore-key
ajax/processRestoreFile.php[link]
copy the files in the backup-archive to their correct location
- in repository
sequry/passdora:Build_Image/files/passdora_scripts/lib/autostart/RestoreListener.py[link]
- in repository
restore the database
- in repository
sequry/passdora:Build_Image/files/passdora_scripts/lib/autostart/RestoreListener.py[link]
- in repository
restart the system
- in repository
sequry/passdora:Build_Image/files/passdora_scripts/lib/autostart/RestoreListener.py[link]
- in repository
Since the commits unfortunately overlap, a nice log cannot be created :(.
I tried to specify the files that were affected, you can find a link behind every file name.
A complete commit log can you find [here]
Preview
as always, a picture says more than 1000 words
Asking for backup-file:
Asking for backup-file's restore-key:
System-Restore successfully initialized:
Allow the user to abort the system-restore:
Thanks for reading,
Jan, for PCSG Developers
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