Is there any way to back-up locally to your PC from a HomeTroller with HS4? The back-up file seems to get stored on the HomeTroller itself which won't be helpful if I need to replace the HomeTroller. I see that you can subscribe to a cloud service, but I don't want that. With HS3, I was easily able to specify a local folder on my PC for the back-up. With HS4, it won't let me change the back-up location to my PC, at least not any way that I can figure out. The process described in the HS4 documentation for changing the back-up location doesn't work for the HomeTroller other than a location on the device itself. Maybe there's a syntax to specify the location that I haven't figured out.
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Originally posted by fschwing View PostIs there any way to back-up locally to your PC from a HomeTroller with HS4? The back-up file seems to get stored on the HomeTroller itself which won't be helpful if I need to replace the HomeTroller. I see that you can subscribe to a cloud service, but I don't want that. With HS3, I was easily able to specify a local folder on my PC for the back-up. With HS4, it won't let me change the back-up location to my PC, at least not any way that I can figure out. The process described in the HS4 documentation for changing the back-up location doesn't work for the HomeTroller other than a location on the device itself. Maybe there's a syntax to specify the location that I haven't figured out.
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Originally posted by awsum140 View PostI spoke with HS support today on another problem and brought this one up. I was able to restore a backup from a remote computer but can't save to that very same location which is on another machine. I was told that it may be in the works, but I will be looking into BLBackup.
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I figured out how to save a back-up from HomeTroller to my PC. It is not obvious. Execute a back-up as usual. Then go back into backup/restore and click on 'local restore'. Select the date of the back-up that you took, and you'll see 'download' in blue next to your back-up. Click download, and the zip file will be downloaded to your PC. You'll also see 'Upload' on that same page which is what I assume you'd use to upload the saved back-up from your computer.
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Originally posted by fschwing View PostI figured out how to save a back-up from HomeTroller to my PC. It is not obvious. Execute a back-up as usual. Then go back into backup/restore and click on 'local restore'. Select the date of the back-up that you took, and you'll see 'download' in blue next to your back-up. Click download, and the zip file will be downloaded to your PC. You'll also see 'Upload' on that same page which is what I assume you'd use to upload the saved back-up from your computer.
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This method worked for me - I had to swap out a faulty SD card. Installed HS on a new SD from the downloads section here. Made the backup and copied it to my laptop, then replaced the SD card in the PI - note that doing this required that I replace my old "unit" in HS licensing/account manager with the "new" unit (SD). The new installation did not have the plugins I was using, and the backup does not actually back up the plugins, just their data - so in order for the "backup" to be successful on a new SD card, you have to grab the plugins first - or later - in order for everything to work. I would imagine that a full image of the SD card would be a better bet - if you can get one before the SD card starts having issues.
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