I’m unable to do a Coreelec system backup to anything other than my SD Card. When I try to backup to anything on my network - SMB or SFTP or Webdav - nothing happens, as in I navigate to the directory where I want to put the backup, click OK, and it closes but nothing happens and nothing is backed up.
To be clear: these network locations all work perfectly fine everywhere else in Kodi so it’s something specific to backing up.
Is the system/kodi backup designed only to work on the local SD card or is something else happening? Thanks.
No option to select other than local location.
You can scp created tar file to other network location manually or create a cron job that will be copying them at defined times.
Just in case anyone else wants an easy automated solution to offsite backup, I ended up doing a modified version of this person’s script as a cron job - my main mod was adding --exclude=Thumbnails at the end of the tar line which cut close to a gig from the backup size:
Combined with using Syncthing to sync the SD card backup directory to a network drive:
What you want is very easy when one has learned a few knowledge of Linux. Basically it consists of creating an empty directory inside CoreELEC (for example: /storage/HDD-REMOTE) and mounting a network drive on it.
Where is this done ?: In the script /storage/.config/autostart.sh
True and if my device were mostly at home, I’d do a permanent LAN mount. But I travel with my Odroid and am on a variety of different networks so, for me, Syncthing was the answer as it allowed me to mirror my SD card backup directory to a backup drive on my home server without having to deal with any network issues at all.