2015-05-01, 12:13
The question is, whether the software _can_ do it.
(2015-04-19, 18:56)robweber Wrote:(2015-04-17, 12:34)jackiass Wrote: On a Raspberry pi 2 running Openelec I am getting an error when using the zipped option with dropbox (non zipped works fine).
"WRITE ERROR DETECTED
The destination may not be writeable
Zip archive could not be copied"
Here is the log (I've Xed out personal data): http://pastebin.com/vw4JVhJ1
It is kinda weird, since it has write access to dropbox and enough space free. As I mentioned, it works fine when I don't zip it but for some reason, unzipped takes more than 12 hours? I can usually upload about 4MB/s and the backup is about 600 MB which would mean 2,5 minutes of upload. I was hoping uploading just one zipped archive would solve the slow upload.
Thanks for the log file. Dropbox's python API has been notoriously troublesome regarding large files. It seems that it times out the connection a lot. The addon attempts to retry but has to give up eventually. That is probably why non-zipped archives are working as they are just a bunch of small files. I've had sort of 50/50 success at the zip files - and that is testing with ones smaller than 100MB.
(2015-04-18, 19:22)ed_davidson Wrote: Hi Rob,
I tried to do a zipped backup onto my OUYA to the downloads folder and got a script error, here is the error:
http://www.xbmclogs.com/pcdbr5xzg
Thanks for the log. The Android platform is bundled with a lower version of python than the other platforms. It does not recognize the "compress_type" option when given. Android uses version 2.6 I think and the compress_type option was introduced in 2.7. I'll have to do some checking and see if I can detect the version used and do the right type of call. Would be better if python was just updated on Android, but that's a Kodi dev thing. If I come up with something would you be willing to test? I don't have an android box.
(2015-04-30, 16:15)bruteforce Wrote: Thanks for the reply robweber
I thought that there may be an easier way I hope or wish that some type of backup program will work in the future?
Its a good tutorial however I do not fancy going though all that method to restore.
(2015-05-03, 21:41)great_vc Wrote: How come the backup size is so big ? 520MB, this is greater than the Kodi application it self!
(2015-05-04, 01:05)ghussey Wrote: backup folder is set - had to setup to do the backup. Android Kodi.
(2015-05-04, 18:39)robweber Wrote: That really isn't super huge. I know several people have reported sizes well over 1GB, personally just my addons, configs, and artwork are 7GB. Depending on what you choose you are backing up images, databases, and even addons associated with your install. Just looking at addons skins can be rather large. I have an emulator addon that is 2GB by itself with all the cores. If you have a lot of videos with fanart scraped those can get large as well. In short - Kodi can generate some good sized chunks of data.