Create backup as image on Server

[Starwhooper]

I get a reply to my report about this issue. The solution is, that in further time the mounts in kodi will be hidden in the list of possible destination.

But i still want backup my xbian inside of the kodi frontent to my fileserver. So please find below my workaround:

In the CLI of my Raspberry i create a additional folder and provide full access for everyone:

Terminal

mkdir /home/xbian/.kodi/imagebackup
chmod 777 /home/xbian/.kodi/imagebackup

As next i start the editor to add the mounting to my server in the rc.local (its a possibility to mount it after each start)

Terminal

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

In the rc.local, i add this line:

Code:

sudo mount -t cifs -o username=xxx,password=yyy //server/xbian /home/xbian/.kodi/imagebackup/

please note that you need to use your own user, passwort and destionation

After a restart its only needed to use the kodi filemanager to add the local folder /home/xbian/.kodi/imagebackup as source.
Now you could use the imagebackup as destination for a image file.

instead of the filemanager, you could also add this lines in the section <files> in file /home/xbian/.kodi/userdata/sources.xml

Code:

<source>
<name>imagebackup</name>
<path pathversion="1">/home/xbian/.kodi/imagebackup/</path>
<allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
</source>