Backup and Restore HABPanel

[hannibal29 (Sebastian)]

Hi all,

just had to do a restore of my OH2.3 installation. Worked very well via the backup and restore scripts. Just one point needed some manual effort: Restoring to HABPanel config.

The current backup script doesn’t include the /userdata/config directory which I think is intended behavior and makes sense for me. All information in this folder is recreated when booting up the restored installation. Only /userdata/config/org/openhab/habpanel.config needs to be restored to get the HABPanel dashboard back.

So here is my question: Wouldn’t it be better to store the HABPanel configuration in /userdata/etc as this is included in the backup? Or is there a reason why it must be at the very same position it is right now?

Best,
Sebastian

[sihui]

Habpanel backup, lost panel configuration and feature request

Sorry for your lost work … Unfortunately the server logs aren’t useful in this case, the browser console output would have been more relevant but it’s quite volatile, a page refresh and it’s gone… I never heard of stories of entire sets of dashboards vanishing when renaming one. I’m not saying it’s impossible and that cannot be a bug - something obviously happened there - but it would be a nasty one; probably someone would have run into it already if it happened a lot or was easily r…

@ysc

Would it make sense as feature request to split the habpanel.config into one file per configuration. So in case of a restore it would be easier to restore separate pages.

The way service configuration is stored cannot be controlled, the only way would be to change the storage backend and API completely, I’ve been thinking about it but it’s not an easy task, especially finding a safe and reliable way of migrating existing data for all users.

[imaginator (Simon Tennant)]

I ended up writing a quick helper script to wrangle the config back after each rebuild/update.

imaginator/system

[Benjy (Ben Clark)]

@hannibal29

The current backup script doesn’t include the /userdata/config directory which I think is intended behavior and makes sense for me.

That wouldn’t be intended behaviour, for me the scripts are correctly backing up the userdata/config folder:

> unzip -l /var/lib/openhab2/backups/openhab2-backup-19_02_11-15_50_35.zip
[...]
        0  2019-02-11 15:50   userdata/config/org/openhab/
[...]

[hannibal29 (Sebastian)]

You’re right @Benjy. My fault. The config folder is included in the backup. I somehow missed that.