Backup All from Webconf no longer working

Hello,

The Webconf backup all no longer works.
There are too many files in /zynthian/zynthian-data so the system chokes on it.

Even a reboot fails eventually

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.

kind regards,
Hans.

You can get creative with the backup utility, using Advanced options.

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.

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Thanks @wyleu

I checked the advanced options on the Backup/Restore tab, but that had no effect.

I hadn’t noticed that the Configuration and Data Items tabs also had these advanced options.

Enough to get creative with.