YNH to external drive

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My YunoHost server

Hardware: VPS bought online / Old laptop or computer / Raspberry Pi at home / Internet Cube with VPN / Other ARM board / …
YunoHost version: latest
I have access to my server : Through SSH | through the webadmin | direct access via keyboard / screen | …
Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ? : no
If yes, please explain:

Description of my issue

Is it possible to do the backup/local to an external USB drive. I have one mapped already.

It would be useful to have the backup going straight to the external drive rather than yunohost.archive.

Also is it possible to set up a Cron job to then run backup (everything)? Again to the external drive

Many thanks

Dj

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Yes.

  • symbolic link /home/yunohost.backups/archives/ to your exernal drive mount point
  • make a cronjob
sudo nano /etc/cron.d/backup
0 2 * * * root yunohost tools sudo yunohost backup create --apps --system

NOTE: Don’t just blindly copy and paste this.
Search the internet for cron jobs and symbolic links.
This should be enough to get you started.

Links to get started:

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@arkadi

Thanks for this

So

ln -s /home/yunohost.backups/archives/ to/my/mounted/drive

CRON I’m ok with, I think. I have one set up for my Restic setup which is STILL working.

If I wanted everything backed up, the line would be:

0 2 * * * root yunohost tools sudo yunohost backup create --all

At 2am backup the whole system?

Thanks again

dj

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The command is:

yunohost backup create

so in cron:
0 2 * * * root yunohost backup create

sudo is not required because root will be running this command.

test the comman: sudo yunohost backup create before setting up the cron, check what cron did after it runs.

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