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    • A Former User?
      A Former User
      last edited by

      add cron or a scheduled task in windows and you have regular backups. toss git in there and you have revision control, potentially offsite with bitbucket/github/whatnot.

      might not be a one-click solution, but you only need to set it up once.

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      • Phaedruxundefined
        Phaedrux Moderator
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        Well you can down load the whole sys folder and each macro folder from the DWC. So that's pretty much all you need for a recovery.

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        • DocTruckerundefined
          DocTrucker @Phaedrux
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          @phaedrux said in Full backup:

          I'm not sure, but I think part of the limitation with getting the DWC to do heavy file processing is the relatively weak CPU which is not suited to the task, plus the waiting for SD card reads and folder recursion.

          I didn't think the duet was doing much of the leg work with regards to the website. I thought that the web page files were served to the browsing computer then they ran on that computer, commumicating with the duet using gcode, ftp, and maybe telnet?

          Running 3 P3Steel with Duet 2. Duet 3 on the shelf looking for a suitable machine. One first generation Duet in a Logo/Turtle style robot!

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          • Phaedruxundefined
            Phaedrux Moderator @DocTrucker
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            @doctrucker Right, but to packup the files into a zip file and send it to you has to be done by the Duet.

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            • dc42undefined
              dc42 administrators @Phaedrux
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              @phaedrux said in Full backup:

              @doctrucker Right, but to packup the files into a zip file and send it to you has to be done by the Duet.

              What happens with the existing backup of /sys and /macros is that DWC downloads each file individually and then zips them up.

              Duet WiFi hardware designer and firmware engineer
              Please do not ask me for Duet support via PM or email, use the forum
              http://www.escher3d.com, https://miscsolutions.wordpress.com

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              • DocTruckerundefined
                DocTrucker @dc42
                last edited by DocTrucker

                @dc42 ...and the processing is done on the remote computer rather than the duet right?

                That's how I understood it anyway. All duet is doing is serving individual files to the remote computer.

                Running 3 P3Steel with Duet 2. Duet 3 on the shelf looking for a suitable machine. One first generation Duet in a Logo/Turtle style robot!

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                • Phaedruxundefined
                  Phaedrux Moderator @dc42
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                  @dc42 said in Full backup:

                  @phaedrux said in Full backup:

                  @doctrucker Right, but to packup the files into a zip file and send it to you has to be done by the Duet.

                  What happens with the existing backup of /sys and /macros is that DWC downloads each file individually and then zips them up.

                  Ah I see. In that case, would it be possible to download the entire contents of the card and zip it up in the same way?

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                  • DocTruckerundefined
                    DocTrucker
                    last edited by DocTrucker

                    Possible, it's just a feature request for DWC as far as I can see.

                    I agree it would be useful!

                    Running 3 P3Steel with Duet 2. Duet 3 on the shelf looking for a suitable machine. One first generation Duet in a Logo/Turtle style robot!

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                    • Danalundefined
                      Danal
                      last edited by

                      Until this is implemented, going to the 3 places for gcode, system, and macros, then check all files and right click download zip, will be a yield a fairly complete protection of invested work.

                      Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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                      • A Former User?
                        A Former User
                        last edited by

                        and /menu if using 12864 display.

                        I'll stick with wget, if it gets a http url to hit instead that gets all the files, great, but ftp will also work as is.

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                        • Danalundefined
                          Danal
                          last edited by Danal

                          Also, just verified in github that DWC is pulling individual files from Duet, and zipping them on the browser (dwc) side. As everyone was saying above. Definitely works this way.

                          DWC is using a unique service call, namely "rr_download,name=", so that it can get text or binary or whatever and add them to the zip.

                          Therefore, implementing this is a matter of adding a button somewhere, adding code to 'walk' the entire directory tree of the SD, and the body of that code would be identical to what zips gcode or macros or whatever today. Absolutely no changes to Duet/RepRap firmware needed.

                          Easy for Chris, and/or if there is enough commentary, I could give it a shot, and do it so that Chris can later pull it on git.

                          Delta / Kossel printer fanatic

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                          • dc42undefined
                            dc42 administrators @Danal
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                            @danal said in Full backup:

                            Until this is implemented, going to the 3 places for gcode, system, and macros, then check all files and right click download zip, will be a yield a fairly complete protection of invested work.

                            And Display if you are using a Duet Maestro.

                            Duet WiFi hardware designer and firmware engineer
                            Please do not ask me for Duet support via PM or email, use the forum
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                            • XTLundefined
                              XTL
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                              Recursive wget (and probably curl, automated browsers and many download managers) would also work great with http. Almost certainly better since the protocol is far more sane than ftp. All that would be required is some url with an html page with one link per file. Or one page per directory for a whole tree.

                              Something that looks like the view you get when opening a directory or a web server served directory. Especially if you leave out sort columns or parent directory links so they don't need to be filtered out from the spider.

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                              • resamundefined
                                resam @XTL
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                                @xtl FYI, I'm using this to backup my printer:
                                wget -r -nH ftp://username@myprinter.local/{macros,sys,www}

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                                • XTLundefined
                                  XTL
                                  last edited by

                                  A recursive GET followed by a git add/commit would give you a pretty nice rolling history along with backups.

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                                  • pawPrinterundefined
                                    pawPrinter @resam
                                    last edited by

                                    @resam Many thanks for that tip. It has helped me a lot.

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                                    • wilrikerundefined
                                      wilriker
                                      last edited by wilriker

                                      And to toss in one more solution: I wrote a small command line tool in Go to do exactly that. You can find it at https://github.com/wilriker/duetbackup. It works over the existing HTTP interface that is enabled by default (in contrast to FTP).

                                      Right now there are no binary releases, i.e. you'd have to compile it yourself but on request I can very easily provide binaries for Windows, Linux (also for Raspberry Pi) and Mac.

                                      Manuel
                                      Duet 3 6HC (v0.6) with RPi 4B on a custom Cartesian
                                      with probably always latest firmware/DWC (incl. betas or self-compiled)
                                      My Tool Collection

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                                      • Scachiundefined
                                        Scachi @wilriker
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                                        @wilriker your program works fine. Thank you 👍

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                                        • Phaedruxundefined
                                          Phaedrux Moderator @wilriker
                                          last edited by

                                          @wilriker A binary release would be great. I think many would use it.

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                                          • wilrikerundefined
                                            wilriker @Phaedrux
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                                            @phaedrux Will do as soon as I get to my PC. 🙂

                                            Manuel
                                            Duet 3 6HC (v0.6) with RPi 4B on a custom Cartesian
                                            with probably always latest firmware/DWC (incl. betas or self-compiled)
                                            My Tool Collection

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