Backup of TVheadend

Feature Requests
1

Hello

  1. Is there some possibilities to add backup of TV headend to MyOSMC Backup Tools?
    In form of special checkbox for TVH or some user selected directory for backup?

I´ve found this thread:

Not sure if wil working user selected directory if the TVH service not stopped

  1. In the past if I made backup by MyOsmc tool, I have also backup of Confluence setting (shortcuts etc.), but last time when I made backup, these setting was not included. There was some change in this tool?

Thanks
Jan

2

You might consider using Graham’s tool which can backup the entire system…

3

You can just back up the .hts directory

Sam

4

Thanks for the tip
I will test it.
Is here somebody who already tested on NOOBs version of OSMC?
Jan

5

I already try to copy of directory, but it not working - not all files was copied.
I´m not sure if there was some problem with access rights or running tvheadend services.
I will test again.
Thanks
Jan

6

Hi,

I recently backed up tvheadend and moved it it different vero4k, I just tar.gz(ed) it and then decompressed it on the other device and it all worked fine:

Edit: @JanS, @bmillham has just reminded me that tvheadend should be stopped to backup/restore, so the process should be:

To backup:

sudo systemctl stop tvheadend
cd ~
tar -czvf tvheadend-backup.tar.gz .hts
systemctl start tvheadend

To restore:

systemctl stop tvheadend
cd ~
rm -rf .hts
tar -xzvf tvheadend-backup.tar.gz
systemctl start tvheadend

The comand: rm -rf .hts will fail if restoring backup to fresh install.

Thanks Tom.

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I’m a little late to this post, but the below linked wiki guide really helped me to just download the whole .hts directory over sftp, using Filezilla. Hope it helps someone else.