[arm-allstar] Google-backup.sh

[Doug Crompton]

Just to be clear the script backups only backup areas of Hamvoip where user
changes are likely to be made. There is no reason to backup more than once
if you have a stable system. In that case nothing really changes. The ONLY
reliable way to backup the entire system is to remove the SD card and copy
the image on another computer. Then keep the backup file or a backup SD
card made from it as available at the server site.

So the methods are:

1) user files backup to usb stick using file-backup.sh in which case if you
had an SD card failure you would need to first download a new image to a
new SD card and then restore the files from the usb stick or wherever you
backed it up.

2) Complete SD card backup which would require shutdown of the server
removal of existing SD card and reading of it.

I also might add that as long as you have your node particulars - node
number, node password, etc. available or written down somewhere it is not
hard to set a simple node configuration up. It might take 5 minutes to
write the image to the SD card and another 5 minutes to go through the
setup. It would really not take any longer than doing the backups and
restoring later. In other words backing up in most cases is probably a
waste of time unless it is a complex system setup or a server that is very
important, like at a repeater site, etc. in which case I would recommend a
full SD card backup once and then incremental backups to a USB stick.

Also there is no real advantage to backing up to a remote system. If you
need to restore things you will need to get the backed up files back on the
server so if they are already there on a USB stick it would be an
advantage. Nothing says you can't scp the backups somewhere else
additionally if you are so inclined.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 10:34 PM "Mike Sullivan via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Is there perhaps a script where one could schedule something like a daily
> or weekly backup to, say, an FTP server hosted somewhere else? May work as
> a temporary solution.
>
> Mike
>
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 9:17 PM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > Yes, the google drive has been removed because it was no longer
> functional.
> > Google removed authorization for the app which is no longer supported.
> >
> > In discussions with Dave and observations of available FREE services it
> > appears there is really no good replacement. We also discussed the
> > possibility of there being a Hamvoip backup option but also put that on
> the
> > back burner,
> >
> > There are many ways to backup your Hamvoip system using the file-backup
> > andfile-restore scripts that are currently available on the system. The
> > easiest way is to install a USB stick and make backups to there. You also
> > could backup to a remote Linux system fairly easily. Also the need for
> > constant backups is really not necessary assuming you are not making some
> > massive change to your code. Backing up once a week is really way
> overkill.
> >
> >
> > *73 Doug*
> >
> > *WA3DSP*
> >
> > *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 8:00 PM "James Hause via ARM-allstar" <
> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Luc,
> > > Here is link to the post
> > >
> http://lists.hamvoip.org/pipermail/arm-allstar/2019-December/013710.html
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 6:24 PM "Luc Drolet VE2LUQ via ARM-allstar" <
> > > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello to you ,
> > > >
> > > > I have version 1.6-07.  for all my repeaters and now I am no longer
> > able
> > > > to do my google-backup.sh every Sunday morning for 3 to 4 weeks
> > > >
> > > > have there been any changes?
> > > > also i did some testing and i'm not the url when i do gdrive about
> > > > I get the error message: bash: gdrive: command not found
> > > >
> > > > I would like to resume my backup on GDRIVE every Sunday
> > > > Can you help me
> > > >
> > > > Thank you
> > > >
> > > > 73’s
> > > >
> > > > Luc
> > > > VE2LUQ
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