Backupsystem

[Ton Karsten]

Can a NetworkMediaTank (NMT) such as a Popcorn Hour A400 be used as a backup system?
It can handle the FTP protocol.
The NMT is in the same network.

[Pat]

If it can handle FTP then you can backup to it. Here's what to backup from the User Guide

[Ton Karsten]

I have read the manual, know that it is possible.
My windows computer is connected to the NMT share. Can I then transfer the same settings to the weexw.conf file. On the windows computer directory: PCH-A400 \ share \ download or should I use 192.168.178.19 \ share \ download? How should the / or the \ be placed?

Op donderdag 8 augustus 2019 14:55:56 UTC+2 schreef Pat:

[Pat]

I'm confused what you're asking for. Are you running weewx on Windows? And you want to backup Windows to NMT? You would use the backwards slash if you're on Windows ... which is this one \

[Ton Karsten]

The Weewx software is installed on a Raspberry Pi with IP address 192.168.178.11. The version that I use is 3.9.1. The Popcorn Hour (NMT) has IP address 192.168.178.19. Now I try to build an FTP connection to the NMT with various settings. With Filezilla and WinSCP I can log in to the NMT. But whatever I try with various settings always gets an error message. I do not know anymore. See LOG file.

Op donderdag 8 augustus 2019 10:54:35 UTC+2 schreef Ton Karsten:

[Greg Troxel]

Ton Karsten <moth...@gmail.com> writes:

> The Weewx software is installed on a Raspberry Pi with IP address
> 192.168.178.11. The version that I use is 3.9.1. The Popcorn Hour (NMT) has
> IP address 192.168.178.19. Now I try to build an FTP connection to the NMT
> with various settings. With Filezilla and WinSCP I can log in to the NMT.
> But whatever I try with various settings always gets an error message. I do
> not know anymore. See LOG file.

I am having trouble understanding what you are trying to do.

"backup" usually means to make copies of all files of importance on a
given system, and to put those copies someplace else. I do this
outside of weewx. Important files to back up are the weewx
configuration files (which would be annoying to recreate) and especially
the weewx database (which I can't recreate).

I use bup, and store the bits on multiple other disks. My backup
mechanism has really nothing to do with weewx other than that I am
backing up files that weewx uses.

One could use tar, or dump, or bup, or various other mechanisms, and
then use ftp to store files. I would be using the command-line ftp
client that I expect is part of the base OS, rather than something
complicated.

With weewx's ftpuploader, I would expect that to be used to transmit
constructed web pages to someplace else (to a web server, usually). I
don't see that being super useful for backup as I would expect you want
to preserve weewx.sdb.