duetbackup - CLI tool to backup your Duet SD Card [deprecated]

[Exerqtor]

Uhm, might be that I'm dumber than the average in here, but i can't understand how to use this at all lol.
I'm on a Win10 system, and when i click the .exe it just open a commandline for 0.4sec and it disapears (same happens if i run it as admin).

[wilriker]

@exerqtor It's a command line tool. Clicking on it will - as you described - open the command window, show the error about missing parameters and immediately close it again.

You need to open the command line manually (open the start menu type cmd and hit enter). Then navigate to the directory the duetbackup.exe sits in and use the parameters as described in the first post or run

duetbackup --help

to get the list of available parameter with a short explanation on what their meaning is.

[Exerqtor]

Ah, thx for the quick answer.
Not gonna spend time learing to use CLI in 2019, sure a nice tool for those who allready know how to use it though.

[OBELIKS]

If I am not too lazy I might prepare something for those that want GUI

At first I think I will leave excludes alone. For that I am definitely too lazy.

If Manuel agrees naturally.

[Exerqtor]

@obeliks
That would be sweet for us simple/lazy people!

[A Former User]

imo "lazy" people should look into scheduled task on windows or cron on linux, no need for GUI and no need to remember to make the backup

[wilriker]

@obeliks It's open source so knock yourself out.

But you might want to wait until next week. I have a huge update and extension coming. @gtj0 will probably be very happy then.

[gtj0]

@wilriker said in duetbackup - CLI tool to backup your Duet SD Card:

@obeliks It's open source so knock yourself out.

But you might want to wait until next week. I have a huge update and extension coming. @gtj0 will probably be very happy then.

Upload???????

[wilriker]

@gtj0 said in duetbackup - CLI tool to backup your Duet SD Card:

Upload???????

Maybe... maybe more...

But now I am out for a long camping weekend. See you next week.

[gtj0]

@wilriker said in duetbackup - CLI tool to backup your Duet SD Card:

@gtj0 said in duetbackup - CLI tool to backup your Duet SD Card:

Upload???????

Maybe... maybe more...

But now I am out for a long camping weekend. See you next week.

Have Fun!

[Jacotheron]

On Windows, for those that struggle to 'cd' into the right directory: If you hold "Shift" while right clicking (inside the folder in Explorer), the popup menu will have an extra item: Command Prompt or Power Shell; it will for example be called "Open PowerShell window here" and when clicked will open it in the right directory.

Along with my duetbackup.exe package, I made plain .txt files with the commands I used for the backup (one for each duet), so that I can simply copy/paste (always using the same parameters):

.\duetbackup.exe -domain "duetname.local" -outDir ".\duetname" -password "duetpassword"

Command Prompt does not allow pasting, but the PowerShell does: first copy the command you want to use, then right click in the PowerShell window - it will auto paste.

Anyways, thank you @wilriker for this tool, it does what it says on the box, no issues found.

[A Former User]

@jacotheron said in duetbackup - CLI tool to backup your Duet SD Card:

Command Prompt does not allow pasting

Not quite true? At least resent versions pastes if you do either of Ctrl + V, Shift + Insert or just right click in the window. Maybe you have a group policy setting that prevent it on your system?

[OBELIKS]

If anyone would like to try it out. It is not yet tested, but it should work.
https://github.com/OBELIKS/duetbackupGUI/releases

The code is not nice, but you can clean it up if you want. I will test it sometime today.

[Dougal1957]

@obeliks said in duetbackup - CLI tool to backup your Duet SD Card:

If anyone would like to try it out. It is not yet tested, but it should work.
https://github.com/OBELIKS/duetbackupGUI/releases

The code is not nice, but you can clean it up if you want. I will test it sometime today.

Which platform is this for?

[OBELIKS]

Windows, it should work on 32 bit

[Dougal1957]

@obeliks I think you need to make that clear on your GitHub I would not have been happy if i had downloaded it being a OS-X user

[OBELIKS]

Added, thanks.

[Exerqtor]

@dougal1957
Is there such a thing as a happy OS-X user at all? Haha just kidding, nice to have a GUI on it have to try it this evening

[OBELIKS]

Just FYI, GUI works! I finally had the time to check.
So I marked it as released.

Next plan is to implement the exclusions and maybe a bit more feedback while it is working.

[OBELIKS]

I made some changes to the GUI and added the exclude command
https://github.com/OBELIKS/duetbackupGUI/releases/tag/0.2