I would like to update from snapshot #1486 to Snapshot #1722. I’ve tried several times on my testsystem. In principle, this works very well while using C:\openHAB2\runtime\bin\update.bat.
But now my question:
The update function has been programmed that no .config files are overwritten. It is a must-have.
But many newer .config files (of the newer snapshots) containing the following entries:
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Do you know about backup and restore? Would be much simpler to backup configuration and databases, remove and install openHAB, restore configuration and databases.
If you’re frightened about losing data, make a full backup in addition…
Yes, I know how to do a “full backup” and a “full restore”. And I know about backup of “conf folder” and restore “conf folder”. But I do not know about “databases backup” and “databases restore”. Is it just copying the folders?
For rrd4j, mapdb, and SQLite it is indeed just copying the folders. And I believe that openhab-cli backup/restore includes those folders as part of the backups. For any other non-embedded database, the way to backup and restore will depend on that specific software, though because those are running external to OH they probably don’t need to be messed with during an upgrade like this.
