Backup

[Nachtzuster]

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[lloydbayley]

Just tested this. Seemed to work well, however, on restore, the birds.db has the wrong permissions. Should be 666 but restored as 644. Found this by trying to delete a recording after restoring. Gave a read only error.
Manually changed to 666 and things worked again.
I'm pulling an all-nighter to try to fix my sleeping patterns so I won't attempt any difficult code fixes just now!

[lloydbayley]

Ok. Adding a -p to the restore tar command seems to fix it! Although, with lack of sleep, I may not be able to be trusted!

[alexbelgium]

Looks a really nice feature, thanks !

[lloydbayley]

There's a space between - and p that shouldn't be there...

[Nachtzuster]

doh!

[alexbelgium]

Nice feature thanks !

[Emmo213]

bzipping would provide smaller backup files.

tar -cjf birds.tar.bz2 scripts/birds.db

-rw-r--r--  1 birdnet birdnet 26808320 Oct 29 09:36 birds.tar
-rw-r--r--  1 birdnet birdnet  2314723 Oct 29 09:37 birds.tar.bz2

[Nachtzuster]

I did consider compression briefly, however mp3 and png files, the biggest part of an actual backup by a large margin, are not compressible. Even the birds.db database, the only notable file that would be worth compressing, is dwarfed by these.
Using compression would not result in any smaller backup file, but would cost lots of cpu cycles, hence time.