Given everybody updating to the new 4.6.0 version, I thought I'd post a 
couple quick tar commands to back up your weewx setup.

# for a packaged install using the Debian example
tar zcvf /var/tmp/weewx-backup.tgz --exclude=.git* --exclude=__pycache__ 
 /etc/weewx /usr/share/weewx /var/lib/weewx /var/www/html/weewx

# for a setup.py installation
tar zcvf /var/tmp/weewx-backup.tgz --exclude=.git* --exclude=__pycache__ 
 /home/weewx

Notes:

   - You could choose to not back up your public_html tree but a restore 
   and weewx restart might take a rather 'long' time to rebuild the NOAA 
   files.  I found the public_html tree is pretty small so I just back it up 
   too.


   - For my setup.py system here, I manually back up my databases weekly so 
   I (usually) skip backing that up by adding --exclude=archive to the 
   setup.py example above.


   - There's an old sysadmin saying that "i*f you haven't done a restore, 
   you haven't done a backup*".   As an old (former) sysadmin, I agree :-)

Hope this helps.

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