Auto backup

[kodiuser]

Hi there,

Im trying to follow this post to have an automatic backup done but cant seem to get it to work. Please could someone help?

My drive is /var/media/KODI/

Automatic backup

Here’s my script. All it does is what the manual Kodi Backup does. You can change it to do more or less. #!/bin/bash #Purpose = Backup Kodi find -P "/storage/backup/" -maxdepth 1 -type f \( -name '*.tar' \) -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \; TIME=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` # Date in Backup Name. FILENAME=$TIME.tar # Backup Name SRCDIR="/storage/.kodi/ /storage/.cache /storage/.config/" DESDIR=/storage/backup/ tar cvf $DESDIR/$FILENAME $SRCDIR

I did create an addon so I can just click to start

the default.py is this
import os
os.system(‘sh /var/media/KODI/backup.sh’)

[gregeeh]

Please post your script that does not work and explain what the issue is.

Automatic when, daily, hourly, on reboot, on kodi restart. When???

[kodiuser]

#!/bin/bash
#Purpose = Backup Kodi
#save this file to /storage/.kodi/userdata/backup.sh
#define your backup-directory

DESTDIR="/var/media/KODI/"
#DESTDIR=/storage/backup/
cd "$DESTDIR"

#number of backups, which exists after the script will have been finished = NUM+1
#50 backups to be saved
NUM=4
ls -1tr "$DESTDIR"/*.tar | head -n -$NUM | while read -r i
do
  rm "$i"
done

TIME=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` 	# date in backup name.
FILENAME=$TIME.tar 			# Backup Name

SRCDIR="/storage/.kodi/ /storage/.cache /storage/.config/"
SRCDIR_EXCLUDE="--exclude=storage/.kodi/userdata/Thumbnails"

tar cvf "$DESTDIR/$FILENAME" $SRCDIR_EXCLUDE $SRCDIR

The above is saved as backup.sh and put on my KODI usb stick.
I have a script that I can execute in kodi

import os
os.system('sh /var/media/KODI/backup.sh')

Should be executed whenever I run my script. Nothing at all happens no backups nothing

[vpeter]

@kodiuser

I have a script that I can execute in kodi

How do you execute it? And does USB stick really has name KODI (all uppercase)? Is it mounted under /media/USB ?

[cubimol]

You might like my backup:

#!/bin/sh
# script backup.sh
cd /media/5TB-HDD/.backups/ && tar -cvf $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).tar \
  --exclude=Thumbnails --exclude=.thumbnails \
  /storage/.kodi /storage/.cache /storage/.config /storage/.ssh
find /media/5TB-HDD/.backups -name "*.tar" -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;

It runs every every three days at seven in the morning via crontab.conf.

# script crontab.conf
0 7 */3 * * /storage/.config/scripts/backup.sh
15 7 * * * systemctl reboot

The main difference is that you don’t place the ‘tar’ command (with the ‘cd’ command) in any directory and that has given me errors that I can’t explain (linux mysteries, maybe the problem is when the ‘tar’ command uses some temporary file in the working directory and it is part of the backup).