Easy Backup Plugin
Yolette Langevin
I.e., supposing I need, in the future, to restore data, all I would have to do would be to "install" the Joplin's Appimage and to put the "joplin-desktop" folder in its correct place? Doing that I would have all my data up and running again?
I would also suggest that you additionally look at the Simple Backup plugin. This backs up everything to a folder of your choice, with a frequency of your choice, keeping as many versions as you choose and can encrypt those backups (useful if the backup location is a Cloud Sync folder and the backup will be transferred off-site).
Simple Backup saves all your notes to a Joplin Export File (JEX). A JEX file is in fact just a TAR file, however the contents are all your notes AFTER they have been exported from the database. So as well as your resources it has all your notes in MD format, NOT in a database. A JEX backup comes in handy if things have gone really wrong and you have to wipe everything, including the sync target, and start again. I say that as if you import a JEX backup into a Joplin client that still has those notes it will duplicate them not replace them.
I have previously realised that some time back I had deleted a note that I probably shouldn't have. I just opened an old JEX file created by Simple Backup and searched the MD files for text I knew was in the note. Then I just copied that Markdown and pasted it into a new note.
It's very good to khow your experiences while using the plugin. I'll definitely put this plugin in my backup routine, and that's something I really wanted: the ability to have all my notes also in the format they are after exporting from the database.
No. I believe that the Joplin export uses the unique IDs so that it can maintain the links, tags, parent notebook etc. when imported back into Joplin. The title of the note becomes the first line of the note MD file.
I'm on Windows, but would like to add that as a relatively new user, one time I did a version update, only to discover Joplin was then only showing the new version files, and all my own files were gone.
Fortunately through Settings > Sync > Advanced, I was able to Delete local data and re-download from sync target
From then on I always backup with a .jex file, and all is good.
It is easy to export your notes. While you don't want to do that daily, it is a good strategy on first installs to do a manual export after "big changes" and until you have a better solution. Keepo reading.
Many mentioned the Simple Backup plugin above and this is definitely utltra simple to setup so this is IMO the first thing to put in place, no matter what is your plan and setup. This will at least protect your data for the time being. Ideally, your backup target is not the same disk/raid array than where you joplin client is installed. The best option is to use a NAS, an external hard drive, etc... or have some automation to fetch this local backup and move it away from the same disk.
if your data is split between a database and filesystem, I feel like stating the obvious but those will both need to be backed up and kept together as you will need the FS backup matching the DB backup.
Most of us know it but how many do it... A backup is ONLY a backup if you tested a restauration of it... That means wiping your data and restoring your last backup to see how it goes.
Easy backup is a plugin you can use to easily create server backups. It takes all your server and saves it into a single zipped file which takes up about 32% less memory then your server. You can make backups manually or you can set a timer to have it make backups automatically. This plugin will backup anything in your world container. This means if you change the file location of your worlds then it will only save what is in that folder.All backups are saved in the Backups folder in the easy backup plugin folder.The only files this plugin will NOT backup are:
Is it possible to remove logs folder from the backup? Is it possible to remove crash-report folder from the backup too?Is it possible to blacklist some folder for the backup?Is it possible to change the folder backup directory to: /backup instead of /plugin/easybackup/backup? to increase security? or change the directory folder? With custom folder, it is better to decrease hack attack or anything else because each server owner can choose a folder he want for the backup ;)Is it possible to remove: " .\ " inside the backup zip file?
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3) Reload the GUI (will do automatically I think) then go to System --> Backup --> Settings and reference the created Shared folder as a folder to backup to. I would suggest fsarchiver for method, but feel free to do whatever you like.
So how do we restore an OMV-Installation? Could not find a guide anywhere except [How-To] Restore OMV system backup made with openmediavault-backup plugin which is only about fsarchiver. It is also not linked in the documentation, so that people could find it easily.
By other hand you are welcome to write a proper way to do and restore a Backup. Please test in your NAS and write a good guide to help other users, remember that OMV is a comunity proyect and there are no employes that can write the guide for you.
If it was not recommended it wouldn't be there. But even if it wasn't that is still no excuse to not have an official restore guide. I'm no expert, if I was I wouldn't be looking for a guide to restore the backup. If I become well versed enough in this process I'll see if I can add a more detailed guide.
If you use a Flash Drive, select one with static wear leveling [6], without this the drive will have a very short lifetime. It is also recommended to install and activate the Flash Memory plugin. The entire disk is used as system disk and can not be used to store user data.
But even if it wasn't that is still no excuse to not have an official restore guide. I'm no expert, if I was I wouldn't be looking for a guide to restore the backup. If I become well versed enough in this process I'll see if I can add a more detailed guide.
There isn't an official guide because it is complicated and very different across different architectures. There are plenty of threads about how to restore in a generic method. But since OMV can be installed on Debian installs, it is impossible to list every conceivable way of restoring. People would just blindly follow a guide that was wrong for their system and have problems.
I think you should read a little about what free software is and be grateful that the documentation that exists in OMV exists instead of demanding that there be more. It takes a long time to write and maintain it.
Of course I wish there was an "official" guide for each plugin, unfortunately there are not enough volunteers to dedicate their time to doing this work. There are thousands of people who come to the forum to ask their questions and there are many more who use OMV, but very few of them offer to help.
I would like to understand why a backup requires cloning the OS drive. There must be a series of configuration files or a database file that contain all of the OMV settings. If I have a corrupt OS drive, I'd like to build a new OMV and then import the config/database files. Can someone here tell me what I'm missing or identify the files/database used for OMV configuration?
That's a great tool but it's not meant to substitute having an actual backup of the system/configuration. By the project's own admission there's a very small window on which it recommends regenerating a omv system using the tool, it's mostly for planned system recreation and not so much for random disaster recovery. Maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't look like that's the project's purpose. It would be great to have an official system configuration backup that we could use for such instances.
By the project's own admission there's a very small window on which it recommends regenerating a omv system using the tool, it's mostly for planned system recreation and not so much for random disaster recovery.
Indeed. omv-regen is not a backup tool. It is a tool to migrate OMV configuration to another system. If you need a backup that you can restore at any time I suggest using the openmediavult-backup plugin. The purpose of both tools are different.
In the current state of OMV it is difficult to migrate the database between two systems if the versions of the installed packages are different. The format of the OMV database is changing, depending on the versions of the plugins or the OMV itself. This would make it necessary to translate the database format from one system to another if the installed packages are of different versions. Another way could be to install exactly the same packages as the original system and once the migration is done, update the new system to the latest versions. Both paths are difficult to follow and it's the only thing I can think of so far.
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