How Do You Backup Sage Recordings?

[mike1961]

Suppose you have say Drive X:\videos with sage recordings and Z:\backup. Now suppose you have 2000 videos and they are all backed up to Z. The following day, if you do a simple XCOPY from the X drive to the Z backup drive and only backup changed files, it's going to backup very fast since there might only be a few files to copy. Then The Z drive will have the new videos recorded on the X drive. The problem is knowing what videos to delete off of the Z drive.

So if the following day 3 files are deleted and 7 files are added, there will be 2004 files on the X drive. Now, if you do an XCOPY you can tell it to quickly copy the 7 new files so that's going to be much faster than trying to recopy everything from scratch. But, how can you tell it to delete the 3 files or in other words, mirror image the folder but copy the changed files and delete the ones off the backup that are no longer on the original?

[wnjj]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...mands/robocopy

Check out the /purge option or maybe just /mir.

[graywolf]

Rsync would be another option

[RonBoyd]

Originally Posted by mike1961

But, how can you tell it to delete the 3 files or in other words, mirror image the folder but copy the changed files and delete the ones off the backup that are no longer on the original?

There are quite a number of software programs that can do that. I, for instance, have my (100,000+) images backed up on 4 different hard drives (yeah, paranoia). I use Compare Advance because as part of the "comparison" stage, I get a list of those files that are missing (and, of course, those that have changed) so I can determine what specific action to take on any or all.

https://www.bauerapps.com/compare-fo...mpare-advance/

[wayner]

I use Robocopy between two systems in my house. Occasionally I get a large external hard drive and copy all media files to that and leave it at my office as an offsite backup. But that is onerous to do on a regular basis as you have to remember to bring it home every six months or whatever. The other problem is that pretty much every time you do this you need a larger external drive!

I used to also backup to Backblaze as a cloud backup. But I stopped that a few months ago.

This isn't really what you asked, but since we are talking about backup options, for non-media files I use Microsoft OneDrive. I don't know how Dropbox is going to survive as it is cheaper to buy Microsoft's 365 subscription and get Office, for PCs and mobile, plus other stuff, plus 1TB/family member for C$109/yr. Dropbox charges C$156/yr for 2TB of storage and nothing else.

[KeithAbbott]

I have a weekly Rsync job to backup only my family home videos from my unRAID SageTV system to my NAS drive. My full NAS drive is backed up weekly internally, and monthly externally, with a copy sent to offsite storage (safety deposit box) quarterly.

I don't bother backing up any other video files. Everything else can be re-recorded, or re-imported.

[phelme]

GoodSync for Windows & a (cheap) Synology, nightly. It takes care of the deletions too.

[KryptoNyte]

An oldie but a goodie, SyncToy

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=15155

[nyplayer]

I created a batch file that uses robocopy..... to backup SageTV on Windows .. you just need to make sure you have robocopy.

CD /d "%~dp0"

set SageDIR=C:\Program Files\SageTV
set DaysToKeep=365
set NUMBKUPS=2
set backup1="\\MYCLOUDPR4100\Public\SageBackups\%COMPUTERNAME%"
set backup2="\\EDSYNOLOGY\Public\SageBackups\%COMPUTERNAME%"
set backup3="\\xxxxxxxxxxxx\Public\SageBackups\%COMPUTERNAME%"
set backup4="xxxxxxxxxx\%COMPUTERNAME%"

set folderin="%~dp0"
for /f "useback tokens=*" %%a in ('%folderin%') do set folderin=%%~a
set folderin=%folderin:~0,-1%
forfiles /p "%folderin%\%COMPUTERNAME%" /m SAGEBACKUP*.zip /c "cmd /c Del @path" /d -%DaysToKeep%
if exist  "%~dp0\%COMPUTERNAME%\SageTV" robocopy "%~dp0\%COMPUTERNAME%\SageTV" "%~dp0\%COMPUTERNAME%\SageTV_BKUP" /E /COPY:DT /MT /MIR /R:3
robocopy "%SageDIR%" "%~dp0\%COMPUTERNAME%\SageTV" /E /MT /MIR /R:3
rem robocopy "%SageDIR%" "%~dp0\%COMPUTERNAME%\SageTV" /E /MT /MIR /R:3
if exist  "%~dp0\%COMPUTERNAME%\SageTV_BKUP" zip.exe -r "%~dp0%COMPUTERNAME%\SAGEBACKUP_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%.zip" "%~dp0\%COMPUTERNAME%\SageTV_BKUP" 
rem if exist  "%~dp0\%COMPUTERNAME%\SageTV_BKUP" zip.exe -r "%COMPUTERNAME%.SAGEBACKUP_%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%.zip" "%~dp0\%COMPUTERNAME%\SageTV_BKUP" 
if %NUMBKUPS% GEQ 1 robocopy "%folderin%\%COMPUTERNAME%" %backup1% /E /COPY:DT /MT /MIR /R:3
if %NUMBKUPS% GEQ 2 robocopy "%folderin%\%COMPUTERNAME%" %backup2% /E /COPY:DT /MT /MIR /R:3
if %NUMBKUPS% GEQ 3 robocopy "%folderin%\%COMPUTERNAME%" %backup3% /E /COPY:DT /MT /MIR /R:3
if %NUMBKUPS% GEQ 4 robocopy "%folderin%\%COMPUTERNAME%" %backup4% /E /COPY:DT /MT /MIR /R:3

[VCRUser]

I've been using Karen's Replicator for several years now. Its functionality is similar to some of the others described.

[RonBoyd]

Originally Posted by VCRUser

I've been using Karen's Replicator for several years now. Its functionality is similar to some of the others described.

Aw, yes, Karen Kenworthy... taken from us much too soon. It is amazing how well her programs have held up over the years (15?). She was so ahead of her times.

https://www.karenware.com/

[Slack]

I use AllwaySync. Creates a windows scheduled task I set for the wee hours.

[AlbuQuirky]

Originally Posted by RonBoyd

Aw, yes, Karen Kenworthy... taken from us much too soon. It is amazing how well her programs have held up over the years (15?). She was so ahead of her times.

https://www.karenware.com/

Three cheers for Karen. Great tools. Joe Winett has picked up support and released an update, 3.7.6, to Replicator a couple of months, ago. I been using it for over a decade.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by VCRUser

I've been using Karen's Replicator for several years now. Its functionality is similar to some of the others described.

Having never used it (or heard of it until just now) does it skip programs which have already been backed up, aka only backs up new things?

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by AlbuQuirky

Three cheers for Karen. Great tools. Joe Winett has picked up support and released an update, 3.7.6, to Replicator a couple of months, ago. I been using it for over a decade.

Can you set it up to keep X amount of days or does it just override with the new updated files.

[VCRUser]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

Having never used it (or heard of it until just now) does it skip programs which have already been backed up, aka only backs up new things?

Yes, you can check off "copy files only if changed or added," which includes additional options for comparison.

[VCRUser]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Can you set it up to keep X amount of days or does it just override with the new updated files.

I don't think there's a way to specify number of days; if you check "copy files only if changed or added" it will overwrite with new updates. RoboCopy might have a way to select based on number of days - not something I've tried.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by VCRUser

I don't think there's a way to specify number of days; if you check "copy files only if changed or added" it will overwrite with new updates. RoboCopy might have a way to select based on number of days - not something I've tried.

So it has he Potential to replace a good DB with one that might have been recently corrupted so not really a safe backup.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by VCRUser

Yes, you can check off "copy files only if changed or added," which includes additional options for comparison.

thanks

[AlbuQuirky]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Can you set it up to keep X amount of days or does it just override with the new updated files.

The main intention of Karen's Replicator is to be replication tool; I use it every night for my media drives and working data drives. Whatever the changes made by the server or me to the SageTV's video directories are made to the replication directories.

A simple replication is essentially an up to date copy of the source target. So, at execution, any changes in the source folders (file or folder deletions, replacements, or additions) are replicated in the destination folders.

I had one of my SageTV video drives fail, this spring. I pointed SageTV at the replication drive and operation continued as before. After installing a replacement for the failed drive, i then directed Karen's Replicator to use it as the destination and a new replication was generated as I slept that night.

That said, Karen made the tool very flexible. While not fully universally flexible for all imagined cases, she provided utility for the vast majority of my file & folder copy operations. Jobs can be setup for manual execution or for scheduled and repetitive operations. The GUI dashboard and setting forms are thoughtful and natural.

See attachments.