Just installed the backup module into an up to date EmonCMS installation. in preparation for an upgrade to Stretch.
First issue is that the file locations are hardcoded as /home/pi/backup. For me, this location is already in use so is not feasible. For others, the user may not be ‘pi’. This really needs to be configurable. I changed the locations I could find, but the export module will not run from the web interface. There is no message to say it is not running and has failed. There was a directory link from the backup/backup that was coloured red. I tried to recreate this but my new link was not in red so this may be the issue.
I looked at the service-runner part of the backup readme, but I am unsure what the crontab is or how to add something to it. I tried to simply run the service runner script from the command line but that seemed to run the backup immediately.
I then attempted to run the export shell script from the installed directory. I get errors but a backup file has been generated. Was it successful or not? How would I know?
Finally, where is the emoncms.config file to be found?
pi@IOT-Server:~/oem/data $ ./../backup/emoncms-export.sh
=== Emoncms export start ===
Sat 17 Feb 22:56:34 GMT 2018
EUID: 1000
Reading /home/pi/oem/backup/config.cfg....
Location of mysql database: /var/lib/mysql/emoncms
Location of emonhub.conf:
Location of emoncms.conf:
Location of Emoncms: /var/www/emoncms
Backup destination: /home/pi/oem/data
old image
Failed to stop feedwriter.service: Unit feedwriter.service not loaded.
Emoncms MYSQL database dump complete, adding files to archive ..
tar: Removing leading '/' from member names
tar: /emonhub.conf: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Error: failed to tar config data
emoncms export failed
pi@IOT-Server:~/oem/data $ ls -la
total 64
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Feb 17 22:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 pi pi 4096 Feb 17 22:28 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 30720 Feb 17 22:56 emoncms-backup-2018-02-17.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 18202 Feb 17 22:56 emoncms.sql
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Feb 8 2017 import
