This is great, thank you for sharing. I would just add that it's always good to make sure a backup resides elsewhere as well. I typically rsync/scp the backup tar file to another system I have as a backup destination but a great alternative is leveraging rclone (https://rclone.org) and placing the complete compessed tar file on something like Dropbox/Google Drive/OneDrive or whatever cloud service you're comfortable with. I am very new to WeeWX and considering I'm running it on a Pi with an SD card -- I wanted to make certain I account for the inevitable SD card failure.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 1:04 PM vince <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/43d8a255-bad9-44b5-aeda-04a6bce3e360n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/43d8a255-bad9-44b5-aeda-04a6bce3e360n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAG%3D9A9bDyWL7xpuQBRjgyGpEH1ip3MDwoUte4aU5zHXK4v8Uuw%40mail.gmail.com.
