TurnKey Linux's take on Ubuntu appliance development: KISS

[Tim Hawkins]

Perhaps the approach should be to create an application that allows you to turn the data you have created on an appliance into a package, so you can reinstall it ontop of another freshOS/appliance install when it comes time to upgrade. 

If each appliance package came with a metadata file that described where all the relevant user data is stored, or how to find it via the appliances configuration, then such a tool could be feasible. 

On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Andreas Heck wrote:

> I've read that in one of your forum threads you say that you think the best way to
> upgrade is to backup your data and take it over to a new appliance. I totally agree.
> Appliances should more or less be throw away software components and the only
> thing users should really have to care is their data.