Backup and Restore

[nic_rt]

After a quick look to the forum, I feel that there is not a topic dedicated to the backup. May be it's easier now but few month ago I've lost all my configration even with a backup made from the expert UI and with a backup of the z-way-server folder...

My question is : is there a way to make a full backup allowing to restore fully, easily and securely, for instance after a crash of the raspberry SD card ?

May be good to have other's feedback and at the end a summary of the "ideal" process for backup and restore...

[remoticz]

Imho backup/restore in principle does not need a process description since it is so fundamental to a system. Should be just one "button".

The Zway designers see that differently. They only made some Z-Wave backup restore in the ExpertUI subsystem, and forgot about it for the smarthome/home automation part. I learned in the meantime that it may be good to save the contents of folder automation/storage. But that is not something you want to bother users with.

I did search in the Developers manual for the words backup, restore. Only restore was found in the index under TODOs

TODOs: check cap 2,2.1,2.2, describe Restore Function

Unfortunately it only refers to restore Zwave chip to factory defaults

[bshure]

I back up my RaspberryPi's two ways.

Every week I use a slightly modified backup script from here: http://sysmatt.blogspot.com/2014/08/bac ... -your.html

This makes a large compressed tarfile on a USB stick that can be restored to another microSD card with another script from the same source. The USB stick is large enough to hold several backups and all "scratch" data and data that will get moved somewhere else. I figure that this will make my boot microSD card last longer.

When the script finishes it copies the compressed file to my fileserver.

Every night I run another script that uses rsync to make an exact copy of the running microSD card to another card in a USB reader. https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone

At least monthly I try booting off the backup microSD card and making a new microSD card from my big tarfile.

This takes up two of my four USB ports but it works for me. I have a low profile microSD to USB adapter and low profile USB stick that don't stick out too far. I use the ext4 filesystem on the USB stick and bought a ext4 utility for my Mac.

Cheers,

Bert

[Sattaz]

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Thanks.

Sebastien

[PoltoS]

Great!