BAcking up everything?
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@jens55 Once you have made the backup by one of the means that others have suggested, then you might consider adopting the strategy that I use. That is, create a folder on a PC which is a mirror of your SD card. Then when you modify or add any new files, do this to the folder on the PC and then upload to your SD card. That way, you will always have an up to date backup, rather than one which is a snapshot in time. For additional safety or security, I also backup the PC folder to a NAS and cloud storage. When the SD card fails, as it will eventually do, creating a new card is simplicity itself.
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@dc42, where in DWC is that functionality? I see a button for uploading files but nothing for downloading.
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@jens55 Right click the folder. But I believe the folder itself can't contain a folder itself, but that may not be the case anymore.
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@deckingman, thanks for that suggestion. Let's say you have a mirror of your SD card. How do you upload the whole card to the printer? There are buttons for uploading gcode files, a button for uploading system files and a button for uploading macro files but I don't see how you would update everything in one go. Of course you are not likely to change everything at once so you could upload any individual section (Macro's, system files, filament files, job files) at a time.
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@Phaedrux, I am sorry, I don't see where I would right click.
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On the folder you want to download.
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@Phaedrux, ok, I have it sort of figured out. I can go into the system directory, then click on the 'filename' button which then checks all the files in the directory and then copy the whole thing as a zip file. Rinse and repeat for the other directories. Convoluted but doable.
Edit: As each download has the same name (download.zip), one would also need to rename every zip file downloaded. -
That tool I originally linked works quite well...
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@Phaedrux, yes, I am currently playing with 'rfm'. Haven't quite figured out how to backup directories other than the system folder.
If I run ./rfm backup -domain 192.168.1.163 I get the system directory I tried ./rfm backup Macros -domain 192.168.1.163 but that gave me a 'directory not found' error message. -
@jens55 The only time I can think of where you might want to upload the entire contents of an SD card, is if the card had got had got corrupted. In which case, you'd need to start again with a new card. In that case, you'd simply insert the card into the PC and drag the entire folder across. Then simply eject the card, pop it into the board and you'll be up and running in no time. At least that's what I have done in the past.....
