Backup EmonCMS

tridiumcontrols · 2016-09-26T02:43:16.390Z

Hi,

I have downloaded GitHub - emoncms/usefulscripts: Some useful scripts for administering Emoncms accounts into my home directory on ubuntu and wanted to backup emoncms, I have read through the readme.md file and configured the backup.php settings, tried to run it and get this error.

root@ubuntu:/home/usefulscripts/backup# php backup.php
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20131226/redis.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20131226/redis.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/usefulscripts/backup/backup.php on line 62
PHP Warning:  require(process_settings.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/usefulscripts/backup/backup.php on line 63
PHP Fatal error:  require(): Failed opening required 'process_settings.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/usefulscripts/backup/backup.php on line 63

Not sure what i’m missing, can someone point me in the right direction?

tridiumcontrols · 2016-09-29T17:32:15.091Z

What would be the proper procedure to backup entire emonCMS setup? in an event of a failure, I have a backup to restore to. I have tried using usefulscripts and I get the error as I mentioned above, and could not find a detailed write up for backup.

Bill.Thomson · 2016-09-29T19:07:58.917Z

What version of Ubuntu is your emonCMS running on?

tridiumcontrols · 2016-09-29T19:16:02.761Z

ubuntu 15.10

Paul · 2016-09-29T19:25:40.903Z

I’m currently using the current version of that script within dropbox-archive to backup emoncms on Raspbian Jessie, and it works faultlessly.
It doesn’t resolve your issue, but at least you know it’s not the script, and possibly a missing package in your distro?

Paul

tridiumcontrols · 2016-09-29T19:35:29.475Z

I will look at that and adapt the script.

Bill.Thomson · 2016-09-29T19:35:43.016Z

tridiumcontrols:

Unable to load dynamic library ‘/usr/lib/php5/20131226/redis.so’

The error is complaining about not being able to find the redis shared sbject file (redis.so)
Is redis installed? The reason I asked about the version of Ubuntu you’re running is explained here.

tridiumcontrols · 2016-09-29T19:40:56.743Z

Thx Bill,

I’ll check if redis is installed, doubt that it is, as far as the php5 and 16.04 ubuntu is concerned, I removed the “5” at the end of the php and all packages installed correctly, tested on latest version of emoncms.

EDIT: yes Redis is installed, I ran #redis-server and got redis 3.03 says its missing redis.so, is that a config file?