I finished installing the latest system on my local server yesterday. I also logged in as Administrator to configure everything. However, I cannot find anywhere to set up the backup schedule. I only see a place to download backups if they already exist. Since yesterday I have no backups listed, so I guess there must be a way to set up the schedule and turn on the backups. I cannot find anything in the manual about this either.
Is there a backup manager I am just not seeing?
Is it only available to the logged in admin user? If so, where?
Is it something I am supposed to SSH into the server box and start for it to show up in the GUI?
I want to make a backup of everything that is already setup and configured before I start adding more to the system. That way I can restore the clean starting point if I screw up the initial data imports.
I also tried going to the server through a terminal and typed in the command: bench backup
and I got a response of Missing argument “site”.
Where do I get this “site” information to add to the command for a command line backup?
How do I configure automatic backups in the GUI?
Sorry, I just cannot find any information in the manual on how to do anything about backups.
Hi @bkm,
You can find the site name in the frappe-bench/site or in the currentsite.txt (in case of mutliple site)
I hope this discussion will be helpful for you
Ok, your response is to cryptic for me to locate the folder with the backups.
You state the backup files are located in:
~/frappe-bench/sites/[sitename]/private/backups
However, if I actually use the ~ symbol as the start of the path, the operating system assumes that I am referencing /home/[myuser]/ as the beginning of the path. That path does not exist in my local debian box where everything is installed. If I login as a use or if I login as root, there is no path to /frappe-bench/ if I start with the ~ symbol.
When I installed the system, I logged in as user “jmi”
This is the only user that existed on the server box aside from the root user.
Logged in as jmi, I type the following 2 commands:
I answered the account password questions along the way, and when everything was finished with the script, I rebooted and signed into the server again as jmi
Now, when I look for the path to the frappe-bench stuff, I cannot find it and your ~ symbol does not help. Obviously when you use the ~ symbol you mean something completely different!!! Unless I know what the full path name is, I cannot find it. Just about everyone here uses that silly ~ symbol as the default start of the path, but evidently only you folks seem to know the full path.
Can anybody share the full path so I can find these files and maybe get a backup to work here?
My frustration with the follow up link was the constant reference to the path beginning with the ~ symbol. I built the debian server from scratch locally with nothing in it except SSH server and a single user (jmi). I let the install script do EVERYTHING else and the system came up working. I could find it on the network and log in as administrator. I even setup all of the things it needed before I start the data imports. When I thought to do a backup before the imports, I could not find the installed files.
It is just that I cannot find the path to anything else that I need on the server as it is not in the jmi home folder, not in the root home folder and it is not in the root / location either. So where did it go?
There are several references to setting up the automated backup through some setup function. The problem is that even the link you pointed me toward did not say how to find this setup function. It only tells you how to redirect your automated backups to a Dropbox account.
My problem is that I cannot find anywhere how to actually setup the automated backup service.
@joEz said [quote=“JoEz, post:6, topic:22928”]
You can setup backups on System Settings in Setup
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It appears the only thing related to backups in the System Settings is the ability to download then once they have already been run, or the ability to set the number of them the system will hold (default is 3).
There is nothing there about setting up times or frequency. There is nothing there to start a backup. There is nothing there to turn on the automatic backups.
The only thing you can do from there is download a copy of an existing backup file. Here is a screenshot of the only reference to backup in the settings:
bench backup or bench backup --site [SITE-NAME] or bench backup-all-sites
B. Via Crontab to automate the process since the existing method does use Crontab and you can simply modify to your requirements.
To Download the backup you can do it via the Frontend as you have posted above or you can download via FTP @ ~/frappe-bench/sites/site1.local/private/backups/
frappe-bench is a folder so could you just do an ls -d from /home/jmi to check for directories rather than everything? Or more specifically, just do a cd frappe-bench (from /home/jmi) and post the error message here
Thanks krnkris. Ubuntu is a Debian derivative. So you would likely have the same problem if you did it in your system. I don’t use Ubuntu because it is so bloated with graphical user interfaces stuff that it slows everything down. So, Debian with only a bash prompt is my preferred server. CentOS will be my cloud server later and it would have happened in that OS as well.
To that end, I think I figured out what happened. The install.py script evidently wants you to use it with a “–user frappe” switch. I did not do this and simply ran it with the --production switch. When the install script did not see that I was also going to create a user named frappe, it decided to create the folder in the /home directory for what would have been a frappe user. However, it did not actually create the user. /home was the past place I thought to look in my search for the /frappe-bench/ location and I found the beginning of that in /home/frappe/ even though there is no frappe user in the Debian server. Regardless, at least now I have a starting point.
This is probably something the developers should look into. It is not generally a good practice to put a named directory in the /home directory unless there is going to be a user to go along with it.
@saidsl Thank you. That has been the most complete and to the point answer to the question. The forums have many details about a Backup function that used to exist in the System Settings. This evidently went away several versions ago and everyone still refers to posts as if they were still valid. Now that I can locate the proper path to the commands and the saved backup files, I will go ahead and build my own set of crontabs to automate the backup process.
@wale Yes, I know it was a dierctory, I just did not know where it was until a few minutes ago. Please see the above reply to krnkris. The install.py script does not put things where you might expect and this makes everyone’s assumptions about where to find the directory tree , well, uhm, incorrect.
There are a lot of users doing ERPNext with the VM edition on local networks. I don’t understand the draw of that sort of platform. I guess maybe it is a little faster to deploy.
Ultimately I have to deploy on a cloud server and I think there will be many modifications along the way. I know I already have a dev team working on how to add a module to do the printing of barcode labels, so operating under a VM image is a bit to constrained for me.
In order to get everything as close as possible to the live cloud version I installed everything on a local Linux box just as it would be on the cloud server. I could probably do a VM implementation on a cloud server as well, but then I would have to pay for a full compliment of RAM on the server box to keep everything running. At least by doing a classical install, the OS can better manage the memory and it cost a little less each month for me to keep it running.
It appears the only thing related to backups in the System Settings is the ability to download then once they have already been run, or the ability to set the number of them the system will hold (default is 3).
There is nothing there about setting up times or frequency. There is nothing there to start a backup. There is nothing there to turn on the automatic backups.
The only thing you can do from there is download a copy of an existing backup file. Here is a screenshot of the only reference to backup in the settings:
A VM gets one up & running fast & easy, no need to install and config on a bare os.
As well one can clone, backup and manage multiple instances…
edit: I forgot to add - one can snapshot a VM image and revert back to it - ideal for development, trials to test instance or config changes and so on…
