A Way to backup every day

Feature Requests
1

Hi, can we add a function to backup the actual system every day?

At the moment a backup is only running if there is a new update. But it would be great if the backup can be sheduled every day even if there is no update found.

would be great

thx

2

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll look in to this with My OSMC 2.

3

While you are waiting for MyOSMC 2, this is not difficult with cron (which is in the App Store). You just need to schedule something like

systemctl stop mediacenter
cp -a /home/osmc/.kodi path/to/your/backupdir/
systemctl start mediacenter

Put those lines into a script and add a line in crontab to run it once a day. If you have a fixed time to check for updates daily, then schedule your backup to be at a different time.

If you have other apps running all the time (eg tvheadend) you should shut those down as well to avoid database corruption.

4

ok thanks

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