Is there an easy way to do an automatic daily backup? I have seen some topics trying to do it, but I haven’t seen an easy solution. I’m looking for a backup of the emoncms data and the node-red configuration. Maybe the easiest way to do it is the dropbox-archive script ( GitHub - Paul-Reed/dropbox-a…

Hello @poldom there isn’t an integrated way of doing this, but I think there are members on the forum here doing this @borpin ?

This is not completely what you are after, but might get you on the way, if you are running a local version of emoncms and using a browser to interact. I’m not sure if you are familiar with linux command line - but it’s quite straightforward. You need to be able to ssh into your server to do it. Th…

Thanks for all your answers. @icenov , I’m used to linux commands, and I use rsync for other servers I have. Thanks for all your detailed explanation, it’ll be really helpfull, I didn’t know there was the emoncms-export script.

I would be interested in the rsync process if you would provide details.

@ian If you wish to avoid cloud storage … Alt 1 - Insert a USB flash drive into the Rasberry Pi and copy the daily export to it. This will be usable if the SD card fails. Alt 2 - Have a second Raspberry Pi on the local network also running the emon software. Post data to it from the first Raspb…

Yes, USB backup is also good! I have the rsync cloud account so can take advantage of it for no extra cost. my cron entry is: rsync -avz /var/opt/emoncms/backup myacc@xyz.rsync.net :backup_emonpi This copies everything in my local emoncms backup directory to a remote directory called emonpi. If …

why can we not have native automatic backups to a USB drive? A 64GB is < £10 Data loss is a massive problem and not having a built in process has caused me to lose data. we should not need to write custom cron jobs. it sould be as simple as plugging a USB stick in going to the admin area and select…

[image] Pukka: why can we not have native automatic backups to a USB drive? Contributions are always welcome… Whilst it might appear trivial, when you get into the guts of designing something for the myriad of different combinations in use, it gets quite a bit more complicated. Remounting US…

[image] borpin: Remounting USB drives on reboot correctly is, for instance, not easy. Here’s one way to solve that problem. [image] How to match a ttyUSBX device to a USB Serial device Hardware By adding some rules to the /etc/udev/rules.d directory, you can force L…

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borpin (Brian Orpin) 12 December 2020 10:00 3

No, sorry, my main system is on Proxmox so I use that to backup the container nightly.

Retrieve data from local emoncms