Remote Backup

Remote backup for a DeviceOn/ePaper server is a crucial part for protecting against data loss from hardware failures, accidental deletions, software issues, natural disasters, and cyber threats. They ensure business continuity by enabling quick data restoration in case of disasters, provide an extra layer of data redundancy and integrity and help meet regulatory compliance requirements by securing data offsite. This minimizes downtime and disruption, safeguarding critical information and maintaining operational resilience.

Overview

Backup setting

Step 1. Sign in DeviceOn/ePaper with a super admin role (root).

Step 2. Select the Setting - System option, and then click the System Backup button.

Step 3. Choose an external FTP storage as a backup storage.

Step 4. After midnight, this server will back up all necessary materials (Databases, OTA packages, images, scripts, etc) to this remote repository.

File location: /SYSTEM_BK/{Server MAC}/Backup_{date}.zip

Recovery procedure

Step 1. Install the same version of DeviceOn/ePaper on the new machine

Step 2. Copy Backup_xxxxxxxx.zip file to the new machine

Step 3. unzip Backup_xxxxxxxx.zip

Step 4. Use the cd command to navigate to the directory where run.sh is located

Step 5. Use the chmod command to make run.sh script executable

Step 6. Run run.sh

Note: If you want to migrate DeviceOn/ePaer from Ubuntu 18.04 (Acronis) to Ubuntu 20.04 (Installer), you can change an internal parameter within the run.sh script to set IS_UBUNTU_INSTALLER=true