Guys, just some quick input on this.
It’s obviously out of scope for openHAB(ian) and therefore not mentioned in the openHABian Amanda Readme, but you can run Amanda on MacOS and almost any UNIX (including Synology and QNAP NAS).
And there’s even a Windows client available, too, so as long as you have a UNIX backup host to run Amanda on you can even use this to backup your Windows openHAB or even Windows based gateway or desktop PC.
@rlkoshak : any Amanda setup can backup (and restore) both, directories as well as complete raw devices (such as SD cards or HDDs). It’s even the openHABian default to do both in parallel, and the Readme recommends to use this to create a SD clone as your first action after you ran your first backup.
@Kim_Andersen, I honestly don’t understand what you feel to be difficult about setting up openHABian Amanda. Rich quoted the steps. It’s as simple as it can get given the range of HW and functionality we want it to cover.
Yes you need to read a single somewhat lengthy doc but doing so does not seem to be a problem given the time you already kept spending on this thread alone. Yes it’s easier for UNIX people but there’s quite a number of Windows people who successfully made it and I’ve spent quite some effort to incorporate their findings into the Readme.
If you have questions or problems, put them up in this Amanda thread and I’ll try to give an answer.
If you feel the Readme is missing anything essential or it’s incomprehensive at any point, let me know where exactly and why.