I've been using this script that I found and run it through sudo crontab it is named weewx_backup.sh. I know it's probably overkill but I run it every 2 hours via cron. You will need to modify the backup location to match your liking.
#!/bin/bash # A script to backup weewx configuration files to NAShostname (and SQLite data until MySQL service can be restored) # While SQLite is being used, the service needs to be stopped before copying the data file to avoid corruption if the system is writing to the file during copy. /etc/init.d/weewx stop sleep 5 # Perform backup rsync -r /etc/weewx /home/pi/myNAS/etc rsync -r /usr/share/weewx/user /home/pi/myNAS/usr rsync -r /var/lib/weewx /home/pi/myNAS/var rsync -r /etc/weewx /media/pi/BACKUP/etc rsync -r /usr/share/weewx/user /media/pi/BACKUP/usr rsync -r /var/lib/weewx /media/pi/BACKUP/var # Brinf weewx service backup. /etc/init.d/weewx start - show quoted text - On Monday, June 15, 2020 at 9:02:32 AM UTC-4, Frank von Thienen wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have not much knowlwdge about shell scripting, so I have to ask. > I need the follwoing action in a shell script, so I can do a cron out of > it. > 1. stop weewx (/etc/init.d/weewx stop) > 2. ftp the sqlite.db from it's directory to a given directory (outside > raspberry) with a time stamp (so time stamp should be added while > transferring via ftp > 3. start weewx (/etc/init.d/weewx start) > > can anyone give me a helping hand. > > thanks > > Frank > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/238668c8-011e-42e8-86ef-7ffb5f9c1fe4o%40googlegroups.com.
