Idea: XBian-backup
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26th Jul, 2016, 06:31 AM
Post: #46
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RE: XBian-backup
(26th Jul, 2016 03:45 AM)Nachteule Wrote:(26th Jul, 2016 03:02 AM)Peiote Wrote: Do you use snapshot? Advisable? Sorry, what are snapshots then? The difference with home and card images? I download with transmission to an external hdd. I use the add-on of Xbian, works great. |
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26th Jul, 2016, 07:52 AM
Post: #47
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RE: XBian-backup
(26th Jul, 2016 06:31 AM)Peiote Wrote: Sorry, what are snapshots then? The difference with home and card images? See here In our case, snapshots are very useful to restore a deconfigured system very fast and easy or copy older config files from snapshots into running system (this I'm doing very often ) But again, snapshots are not backups, because if medium is broken or file system is corrupt, all has been gone. Quote:I download with transmission to an external hdd. I use the add-on of Xbian, works great. Makes sense |
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27th Jul, 2016, 03:50 AM
Post: #48
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RE: XBian-backup
(26th Jul, 2016 07:52 AM)Nachteule Wrote:Understood (link broken, but I get it). Thanks.(26th Jul, 2016 06:31 AM)Peiote Wrote: Sorry, what are snapshots then? The difference with home and card images? Q: at what time are backups done? These days I am not turning off Kodi (I usually stop just Kodi so transmission keeps working) to get the backups done, but it seems it is not working. |
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27th Jul, 2016, 05:20 AM
Post: #49
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RE: XBian-backup
Automatic backup is running by (ana)cron job, NOT by Kodi. Usually those daily/weekly/monthly jobs are running in the morning
see file /etc/anacrontab (anacron should be installed per default) and /etc/cron.d/anacron. |
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28th Jul, 2016, 02:34 AM
Post: #50
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RE: XBian-backup
(27th Jul, 2016 05:20 AM)Nachteule Wrote: Automatic backup is running by (ana)cron job, NOT by Kodi. Usually those daily/weekly/monthly jobs are running in the morningThanks. Now it seems to be... WORKING Best regards |
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10th Jun, 2017, 07:27 PM
Post: #51
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RE: XBian-backup
AFter a year of having this great function working I noticed that the server the backups go to was getting full.
A little investigation shows that although the 4 rpi backup directories had only 7 system backups in each, the recycle bin had 2.5TB of backups. Of course I deleted them all and got a lot of space back. For some reason it had not occured to me that the 'old' backups were not fully deleted and ended up in the RB. Time for a cron job to clean the RB monthly I think! Just thought that someone might find this useful. |
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10th Jun, 2017, 09:04 PM
Post: #52
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RE: XBian-backup
(10th Jun, 2017 07:27 PM)Skywatch Wrote: For some reason it had not occured to me that the 'old' backups were not fully deleted and ended up in the RB. Time for a cron job to clean the RB monthly I think! What kind of server do you have. I'm running Debian 8 server and RPi's mounting backup share via NFS, RPI2 and iMX6 using samba share, but not having recycle bin configured for this share. Does'n t make sense for me |
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26th Nov, 2017, 08:01 PM
Post: #53
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RE: XBian-backup
(4th Jun, 2016 03:30 AM)IriDium Wrote: Currently the xbian-backup "/home to file"can only be run manually and then copied/FTP to alternative storage. The image is lost on a reboot and thus lost if you forget to copy it. Very good idea! |
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4th Mar, 2019, 08:34 PM
Post: #54
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RE: XBian-backup
Is there a way to check the contents of the xbian backups?
I have amended my /etc/default/xbian-snap to exclude the directory containing my media with "EXCLUDESUB=/media" and I can see that snapshots are being run correctly however I just wanted to check that they were still running correctly and to see what folders/files were in the backups? |
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4th Mar, 2019, 11:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 4th Mar, 2019 11:02 PM by Nachteule.)
Post: #55
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RE: XBian-backup
(4th Mar, 2019 08:34 PM)vifu Wrote: Is there a way to check the contents of the xbian backups? You can mount the image and check if everything is ok in the image For example, if you want to check image file /mnt/kmxbibr/kmxbibr_xbian_image_2019-02-19.img, run commands to inspect backup image (Click to View) Quote:I have amended my /etc/default/xbian-snap to exclude the directory containing my media with "EXCLUDESUB=/media" and I can see that snapshots are being run correctly however I just wanted to check that they were still running correctly and to see what folders/files were in the backups? You never can exclude folders, you just can exclude subvolumes only for snapshots, not for image backup. Does not make sense to make an image backup without all existing subvolumes |
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5th Mar, 2019, 12:48 AM
Post: #56
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RE: XBian-backup
(4th Mar, 2019 11:01 PM)Nachteule Wrote:(4th Mar, 2019 08:34 PM)vifu Wrote: Is there a way to check the contents of the xbian backups? Okay, I think I'm getting mixed up between backups and snapshots. I have now changed my xbian-snap file back to the default. Should my xbian be automatically creating backups into the /xbmc-backup folder on a regular basis? There was nothing in there until I ran the backup from xbian-config GUI. My concern was that out of a 64GB SD card 90% of it was in /media that didn't need backing up. But I guess I don't need to worry about any backup / snapshot procedure taking up a lot of space on the SD as that's not how it works. |
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5th Mar, 2019, 12:57 AM
Post: #57
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RE: XBian-backup
(5th Mar, 2019 12:48 AM)vifu Wrote: Okay, I think I'm getting mixed up between backups and snapshots. I have now changed my xbian-snap file back to the default. No, default is making no backup (neither /home nor image) /xbian-backup is default folder for running /home backups. Making image backups to /xbian-backup does not make sense This folder is flushed on each (re)boot Quote:My concern was that out of a 64GB SD card 90% of it was in /media that didn't need backing up. But I guess I don't need to worry about any backup / snapshot procedure taking up a lot of space on the SD as that's not how it works. Do you have/mount external disk, bc /media is usually empty |
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10th Mar, 2019, 09:28 PM
Post: #58
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RE: XBian-backup
(5th Mar, 2019 12:57 AM)Nachteule Wrote:(5th Mar, 2019 12:48 AM)vifu Wrote: Okay, I think I'm getting mixed up between backups and snapshots. I have now changed my xbian-snap file back to the default. OK thanks. Think I misunderstood what was happening. Yes /media is just where I keep my all my media (within subfolders of /media) so it contains the vast majority of space on the drive. |
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