Starting broadly…
I want to reimage a pioreactor with the latest pios and pioreactor software but I want to backup the pioreactor first.
I"m not sure what format or what settings I would want to export from what experiments, so I just want a full backup
What is the best way to backup all experiments and data, along with settings and calibrations?
Hi @DocRuzzy, all the data (experiments, sensors, calibrations, etc.) are in the ~/.pioreactor folder. We have some instructions to zip this folder and export it here.
I just wanted to respond to you regarding this topic. We had briefly discussed here: Exportable_datasets did not generate with update - #8 by CamDavidsonPilon
What ended up working for me was removing these lines from the export script. Not sure if they were absolutely necessary but that resolved the error you had mentioned in your last reply. The transfer seems to have worked fine as far as I can tell.
sudo systemctl stop lighttpd.service || true
sudo systemctl stop huey.service || true
The one pain point right now is that you have to give the new flashed pio the same hostname per the docs. This prevents you from scp transferring from one pio to the next directly. Need to use my computer in the middle. Even prevents you from having them on at the same time. I tried removing the lines that check for identical host names but transfer didnt work correclty based on not having any .tables in pio db.
Is there a simple way to get around this?