Run osso-backup without GUI?
 

Hi All,
Is it possible to run the osso-backup program without using GUI?
I would like to schedule a backup using the osso-backup program and run it nightly. I plan to use Fcrontab to exec osso-backup.
Normally, I use the default setting in the backup program as shown by GUI that is backing up everything. And also use the default of the backup file name.

I need help in executing the osso-backup using the command line instead.
Thank you.

Re: Run osso-backup without GUI?
 

Why don't you make your own script for backup? I have it set up this way, but I don't think that it's possible with osso-backup.

Re: Run osso-backup without GUI?
 

I do an auto nightly backup of my personal files, but the missing part is all the files that can be backing up by osso-backup. It would be nice if I can use osso-backup, because it backups all the files that need to be backuped.
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Could anyone tell me the location/folder of those files e.g. contact folder, bookmark, system setting, application etc.?
Thank you.

Re: Run osso-backup without GUI?
 

Help please. I need to know the location/folder of these files e.g. contact folder, bookmark, system setting, application etc.that the installed N900's backup program backed it up. These will be used for my nightly backup.
Thanks.

Re: Run osso-backup without GUI?
 

aka179 user quoted in an old thread issued in 2007 that he exec the following commands to launch the backup in the batch mode (if i understood his note correctly):
exec maemo-invoker /usr/bin/osso-backup.launch

aka179 are you still around this forum? Please help me on this, or someone who understand how to run the osso-backup answer me this. I would appreciate it very much.

Re: Run osso-backup without GUI?
 

I assume no one has any new information on this - I am, also looking for something of the sort (I would rather not recreate the wheel but use the built-in osso-backup functionality instead).

Re: Run osso-backup without GUI?
 

Here's a thread where I posted a script to backup /home/user/ (excluding MyDocs). I believe all the things you want to backup are in the /home/user directory. Worst case, it'd be 1.9GB, mine runs around 200-300MB.

It backs up to the MyDocs/tmp directory, easily changeable, so if you're already backing up your MyDocs, just run it first. You can also backup /opt as well.

You ought to be able to exclude other directories if you want as well to reduce size.

Re: Run osso-backup without GUI?
 

Has anybody figured this one out with osso-backup?