Backup of headless LE/thveadend on Rpi?

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systemctl stop kodi.service
tar -cvf mybackup.tar /storage/.kodi
systemctl start kodi.service

chewitt

Sorry to bring this old thread up again, but i want to create a auto backup as well.

I am new to Linux/LE and I got the cronjop working so far. But I have a question regarding stopping/starting the kodi service. Is this mandatory to get a consistent backup? I am asking, because the backup job seem to work properly as well while using Kodi+Tvheadend when backing up.

thanks

Thank you, CvH

So I am going to run the backup job streight after booting the machine to not interupt any potential recordings

Just stop kodi forever if it's running as server only I have set it up this way

This is my autostart.sh


#!/bin/sh
sleep 10;
if systemctl stop wpa_supplicant kodi service.tigervnc docker.linuxserver.portainer pulseaudio; then
    echo "Services stoped"
else
    echo "Error"
fi

Then I call another backupFull.sh script from cron to backup stuff every 24h

#!/bin/sh
tar -cpf /storage/backup/backup-$(date +%F).tar /storage/.config /storage/.kodi /storage/.ssh /storage/.ash_history /storage/.cache

Thank you for your advice Borygo77

Server only doesn't work for me as both, kodi and Tvheadend run on my main HTPC.

But backing up more than just .kodi makes sense.

Maybe a stupid question:

Does the restore function with LibreELEC do the job for the other folders as well (/storage/.config /storage/.ssh /storage/.ash_history /storage/.cache)?

Currently my shell looks like this

#!/bin/bash

# Stop Kodi Service
systemctl stop kodi.service

# Wait 3 seconds to make sure service is stopped before continuing
sleep 3

# Create backup archive. Append date to the file name
tar -cvf /storage/backup/backup-$(date +%Y.%m.%d_%H.%M).tar /storage.kodi

# Delete files older than two weeks (15 days)
find /storage/backup/ *.tar -mtime +15 -exec rm -f {} \;

# Wait 10 seconds to finish the backup 
sleep 10

# start Kodi service again
systemctl start kodi.service

#rsync job to NAS
rsync -avze ssh /storage/backup root@<IP>:/path/to/LEBackup

I am struggling with the find command as -exec needs another attribute, but I'm sure I will get that to work as well

...I might have to increase the the second sleep for the full backup...

Thanks!

It does bub 😊 it will replace any file you have backed up with tar 👍 what I found is Libreelec does need to have proper name of the file to restore it.

20191124141244.tar this file will be restored alright but this one backup-2020-01-31.tar not 🙈 and I don't know why

This is my delete script called from cron and it does the job for me alright 😉

#!/bin/sh
find /storage/zew/backup/auto_backup -mtime +4 -type f -delete

It deletes any files and folders older than 4 days.

Quote from Borygo77

what I found is Libreelec does need to have proper name of the file to restore it.

20191124141244.tar this file will be restored alright but this one backup-2020-01-31.tar not 🙈 and I don't know why

The reason is here I think LibreELEC.tv/backup-restore at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub . The file pattern is /??????????????.tar

What I'm doing is just change name of the file and it works great

Hi All,

I am still struggling with the automated backup.

I wrote following scrip to execute with a cronjob.

#stop kodi service
systemctl stop kodi.service

#wait 2 sec
sleep 2

#Backup
tar -cvf /storage/backup/$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).tar /storage/.config /storage/.kodi /storage/.ssh /storage/hyperion /storage/.cache

#wait 10 sec
sleep 10

#rsync to NAS
rsync -a --no-p /storage/backup root@IP.NAS:/road/to/target

#start kodi service
systemctl start kodi.service

#delete old backups
find /storage/backup -mtime +15 -type f -delete

The script works 100% fine when I execute it manually (./autobackup.sh).

It does not work properly when started via cron and I don't see why.

When started via cron, all is executed properly except the rsync job.

Does anyone have a clue?

Thanks!!

My intension was having different backup states while doing full backups once a week.
... when using kodi under windows with dvbviewer, I had to fully restore kodi many (many) times.

Thanks

Set complete environment for your cron job, see Cron problem sh file

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Set complete environment for your cron job, see Cron problem sh file

wow - it works now - thanks so much!!

But it remains a kind of untraceable for me why only parts of the script were executed.

I mean because crontab found the .sh but excluded the rsync.

anyway. Thanks again

rsync is part of the Network Tools but /storage/.kodi/addons/virtual.network-tools/bin is not part of the default (cron) PATH.

Sourcing /etc/profile adds the addon paths to PATH.

Thank you for enlighting me!