Xbian backup feature

[mk01]

(22nd Nov, 2013 01:25 AM)Naif1992 Wrote:  However, I think it's not going to be helpful in case of an SD card corruption because the backed up data is saved on the SD card. That defeats the purpose of a back-up in case of an emergency. So I think you should allow users to choose back-up path and backup frequency. For example, I have my Raspberry Pi connected to my network HDD's 24/7.

the initial release of "backuphome" function was targeted more to users with one single RPI installation and a PC without 24/7 running NAS or PC with huge storage. that's why there is no scheduler for this one and there is no user selectable destination.

user is expected to start the backuphome function and browse for the created file from win/linux/macosx/others.

if one has a server / nas solution, more effective solution would be centralized XBMC setup with most of .xbmc content shared over network and SQL hosted library - which allows you easy restore, all the time the same settings / looks / library over all XBMC devices (RPI and PC in your case. so you configure one and just install XBMC on others with no extra configuration/setup redundant work for other installations.

or one can always schedule complete .img file creation with "xbiancopy" function (including user selectable target location being local folder, remote folder (mounted locally), local block device). it will create on img file completely preconfigured for re-flash to sdcard and start (it will create boot partition on the img file, properly configure boot and cmdfile settings).

this doesn't mean we won't implement this for backuphome function, if there is demand for it.

btw: you can to this yourself very easily.
1) create file /etc/cron.daily/backuphome-scheduled, do a chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/backuphome-scheduled
2) inside the file put:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

exec  >/dev/null 2>&1

dest=/mnt/mounted.network.folder
# set to yes if you want to remove old backups
rmold=no

btrfs-auto-snapshot backuphome
if [ -n "$(find /xbmc-backup -iname \*.img.gz)" ]; then
   [ $rmold = yes ] && mv "$dest/*.img.gz" "$dest/*.img.gz_delete"
   if mv /xbmc-backup/*.img.gz "$dest"; then
      rm -f "$dest/*.img.gz_delete"
   else
      mv "$dest/*.img.gz_delete" "$dest/*.img.gz"
   fi
fi

that's done