What files to back up?

[PaddyB]

I'm in the process of setting up a node red flow to auto backup various files once a day - but which ones?
Will probably set up a dedicated openplotter dropbox to save them to. 


So far -  sudo cp -R /home/pi/.node-red/*.*
 /home/pi/.opencpn/ 

Think I'll add kplex as well and openplotter.conf.

So if I need to reinstall the sd card image from a backup, what other files would save too much setting up again if the backup image wasn't as up to date as it should be..? 

Ta

[PaddyB]

looks like a good enough starting point...

https://flows.nodered.org/flow/a275b56b4...8fb2ad2f8a

[Sailoog]

node-red flows
openplotter.conf
opencpn.conf
/home/pi/.config/openplotter/imu/settings/RTIMULib.ini (IMU calibration)
kplex.conf

[PaddyB]

Thanks.  Here's a little node-red flow which backs up into /home/pi/files/backups 

The files/backups directories need to exist for it to work. 

Saves kplex.conf , all the files in .node-red, files and directories in .opencpn (so the logbook gets backed up, bit big this one so might need some trimming) &  openplotter.conf .

Hope this might be useful, any tips / ideas for improvement please share :

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[SkipperEarly]

is a backup to the same SD card really useful? Maybe this flow should be extended to backup to e.g. dropbox or similar.

[PaddyB]

is a backup to the same SD card really useful? Maybe this flow should be extended to backup to e.g. dropbox or similar.

Probably will set up a dedicated small Dropbox at some point, or maybe get ftp working. Though I've never trashed a card so bad that you couldn't net at the files..... Yet anyway

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[Sailoog]

It was planned a tool to export different config files but it would need to wait for the stable version