my flash drive is starting to fail again, so i tried to take an update backup with 'connect' and it didn't work, i had to delete the one from a few months backup again.  it worked but the whole backup is just 481.5MB its missing tons of info.

so i went over to the Main page, clicked on Flash and clicked the FLASH BACKUP button.

i have tried several times but it always stalls out at 2.3G, i checked and i am missing approximately 5214 files.

the zip process is gone.  how can i run that from the terminal?  or should i just zip it myself.  will it be usable with 'unraid usb creator' ?

 

trying.

zip -r flash-backup-20250119-1729.zip /boot |pv

Edited January 20, 20251 yr by xtrap225
adding info

See if you can copy the /config folder, that's all you need.

so i had to use the usb creator to create a usb, then manually copy over everything from my zip file. that is all fine my concern is that the backup doesn't work.  is the online backup not supposed to do the whole usb, it just does the config folder? i guess i need to move a bunch of stuff to the config folder in that case.

38 minutes ago, xtrap225 said:

i guess i need to move a bunch of stuff to the config folder in that case

Sounds like a way to break something.

so the one example i have so far is i moved ...

 

/boot/logs to /boot/config/logs then added the following to /boot/config/go

 

#boot bindings
mount --bind /boot/config/logs /boot/logs
 

i did this to get those to backup and because fat32 cannot do symlink. and as you said you don't want to break things so pointing it back to the original location takes care of that.

 

 

this is also probably the least important of the things i want included in the backup, but i thought it might be useful to someone else if i provided an example.

1 hour ago, xtrap225 said:

is the online backup not supposed to do the whole usb, it just does the config folder?

Connect backup is just the config folder, manual backup copies the complete flash drive, but like mentioned, everything you need is inside /config, unless you are specially saving some things outside that.