Is it possible to move these files to USB stick (or to zynthian-my-data, I already linked that to USB stick)?
Or -if that is not possible- can I exclude certain directories from backup all?
If I re-flash the image I will automatically get all these files back, so why are they in a backup?
Is there a list somewhere of included directories? I would like to add /root to the list as there are a number of files that I value, but not /root/.cache so an exclude mechanism would be helpful.
It has never really had a solution to lots of big files, and so the separation of config & data is useful.
I tend to start with a config just to see if everything is behaving itself, but that’s more for my benefit than zynthians. The backups tend to simply go into a directory structure on a remote disk, and are rarely touched.
The irony of my browser regarding zip files created on my own machine as suspect and worthy of blocking is both amusing and a tiny bit chilling.
What I actually would love would be an internal backup/restore to connected usb drive. Data backup/restore works perfectly with webconf, but user data including soundfonts is very big and fails often, so the usb solution would be neat.
I had the same problem as you. What I have done is move zynthian-my-data completely to USB drive (It’s a very small drive, you hardly see it):
I copied everything from zynthian-my-data to my USB drive, including directory structure.
Then I created a softlink for zynthian-my-data to the USB drive:
cd /zynthian
mv zynthian-my-data/ zynthian-my-data-OLD/
ln -s "/media/root/ZYNTHIAN" "/zynthian/zynthian-my-data"
where my USB drive is labelled “ZYNTHIAN”
Now I can simply make a backup from my USB drive to a second one. I do this on my Windows machine with robocopy. Takes only a few seconds when there are just a few changes.
Only pitfall:
When the USB drive is removed, Zynthian does not start. You get a sad Daphne Oram picture with a SegFault(1) and ERROR in red.
This is caused by Zynthian not finding it’s last snapshot.
(No such file or directory: '/zynthian/zynthian-my-data/snapshots')
For the rest everything works as normal and just as fast as on SD card.
This is a great idea I will definitively consider. I always have my soundfonts mirrored, but I always think twice if I want to re-etch my SD because it always means copying 50 GB soundfonts.
