Hi all,
I'm running custom firmware on my Humax - and it's been working great for years. Currently I'm starting to get some HD errors and was thinking about the inevitable failure at some point....
Can't complain really - everything has been running reliably since 2015![Smile :) :)](/forum/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png)
I don't want to fork out for a new disk just yet (I might replace with an SSD if these are reliable enough - might have a further question on this
).
Media files in the Video folder get backed up to my Synology NAS so that's fine, but I was wondering about the best way to back up all the settings for / webif / crontab / scripts etc, and what would be best way to restore them after the disk failure happens at some point.
I'm not sure what are the key directories/files that I need to backup.
My linux knowlege is getting very rusty. Would TAR be the way to backup?
Or maybe just use SyncBack (windows program that I currently use for backing up the media files) to copy directories/files over to the NAS at regular intervals?
Thanks for any advice,
Shaun
Fox HDR - Custom firmware version: 3.13 (build 4028)
I'm running custom firmware on my Humax - and it's been working great for years. Currently I'm starting to get some HD errors and was thinking about the inevitable failure at some point....
Can't complain really - everything has been running reliably since 2015
![Smile :) :)](/forum/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png)
I don't want to fork out for a new disk just yet (I might replace with an SSD if these are reliable enough - might have a further question on this
![Wink ;) ;)](/forum/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png)
Media files in the Video folder get backed up to my Synology NAS so that's fine, but I was wondering about the best way to back up all the settings for / webif / crontab / scripts etc, and what would be best way to restore them after the disk failure happens at some point.
I'm not sure what are the key directories/files that I need to backup.
My linux knowlege is getting very rusty. Would TAR be the way to backup?
Or maybe just use SyncBack (windows program that I currently use for backing up the media files) to copy directories/files over to the NAS at regular intervals?
Thanks for any advice,
Shaun
Fox HDR - Custom firmware version: 3.13 (build 4028)