How do I store all my openhab configuration to git?

[Wolfgang_S]

Backing up configuration using Git in OH3

I’m in the middle of migrating from OH2 to OH3. My OH2 installation is running on a Windows “server” (actually WinXP), while my OH3 installation is openHABian on a RPi. I’ve used Git to backup my configuration. By that I mean configuration files that I put time into configuring like items, rules, maps, sitemaps etc. I use .gitignore to exclude everything that is somehow configured automatically or during a “normal” installation. Please don’t start the “backup” discussion, as this isn’t my only …

Storing configuration (userdata) in git

Hi all, I am one of those who store and backup the userdata config folder in a git for a disaster recovery as well as provisioning new raspis from clean slate. This approach has worked for me well, no matter which way (UI vs textual) the openHAB has been configured. Now, with openHAB 3.0 I migrated to full UI based configuration, so there is a lot more of the config stored in jsondb. I have noticed that small changes to the rules/things/items might result in large diffs in git, making auditin…

Example: Configuration Management of OH Configs using Git

Continuing the discussion from Exec binding and echo, netcat, a pipe, carriage return and quotation marks: I decided to respond n a new thread because I think others might be interested in the answer. Here is a full description of my source control for my OH configurations. git server I use a Docker Container running git and ssh with a folder I backup mounted as a volume for the repositories. I do this for several reasons. First, I wanted to learn how to use Docker and how it works and this…