OLPC XO - Copying XO Contents (Backing Up)

You can give an activity session a more specific name when you Exit from the activity, or by editing its
listing in the Journal. A more specific name might be the name of the person in a Record photo, a title for
your latest Draw artwork, or a phrase describing your last Write activity.
From the Journal, you can search past activities by keyword and sort by activity or date.
Clicking on an entry in the Journal brings up a detail page where you can add or edit a Description of the
activity, add keyword "Tags", delete, copy or resume the activity. To resume, click on the square in the
top right corner of the screen, then on the activity icon beneath the word "Resume." The other icons on
the top of the screen are Copy (to the clipboard), Erase (from the Journal and from the computer's
memory), and Go back (to the Journal list).
The Journal also lets you work with external media. When you plug a USB memory device or SD memory
card into the XO, an icon representing the device appears at the bottom of the Journal. Click on the USB
icon to see the content. You can also drag and drop Journal entries onto or off of a USB key.
Related links
Journal_Activity with screen images
OLPC Trial-2 Software Release Notes#Journal and Datastore
Journal
OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/The Journal
Journal and Overlays
Educational activity guidelines#The Journal
Tests/Journal
Journal/Specifications
542 Demo Notes#Journal
Copying the XO contents (backing up)
Your XO will automatically copy items from the Journal to your school server, which provides a way to
"back up" your information. This "back up" process means that if you ever lost a song or image or story
that you wrote, you can get it back (recover it) from your school server and put it on your XO laptop. If you
think you have lost something, ask your teacher to run the backup-restore command.
If you needed to replace your XO laptop with a new one for some reason, then your teacher can follow
these instructions for copying all of your songs or stories or other files.