schedule backup feature

[Bush-cat]

a handy feature for lazy people

[EmeraldSnorlax]

scheduled backups with versioning would be very nice!

[Alistair1231]

In case you are interested, I will share my personal solution for automatic backups. I use nssm (available via choco) This is a dump of the nssm service:

You will want to replace alima with your username. If you use a local account replace "****" with your local password, if it's a microsoft account, use your Microsoft password, not your pin.

nssm.exe install ludusavi C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
nssm.exe set ludusavi AppParameters C:\Users\alima\AppData\Roaming\ludusavi\service.ps1
nssm.exe set ludusavi AppDirectory C:\Users\alima\AppData\Roaming\ludusavi
nssm.exe set ludusavi AppExit Default Restart
nssm.exe set ludusavi DisplayName ludusavi
nssm.exe set ludusavi ObjectName .\alima "****"
nssm.exe set ludusavi Start SERVICE_DELAYED_AUTO_START
nssm.exe set ludusavi Type SERVICE_WIN32_OWN_PROCESS

The service.ps1 is this:

$ludusaviPath = "C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\ludusavi.exe"
$workingDir = "C:\Users\alima\AppData\Roaming\ludusavi"
$logFile = "$workingDir\ludusavi_service_log.txt"
$maxLogSize = 1MB
$arguments = " backup --try-update --force"

Set-Location "$workingDir"
Write-Output "We're good to go. starting loop..."
Start-Transcript -Path $logFile -Append
while ($true) {
    Write-Output "=================================="
    Write-Output "running backup at $(get-date)..."
    Write-Output "=================================="
    Invoke-Expression "$ludusaviPath $arguments"
    
    Write-Output "=================================="
    Write-Output "checking if log file needs to be rotated at $(get-date)..."    
    Write-Output "=================================="
    # Check if log file has reached max size and delete old log file
    if ((Get-Item $logFile).Length -gt $maxLogSize) {
        Write-Output "log file has reached max size of $($maxLogSize/1MB)MB. rotating..."
        Stop-Transcript
        $oldLogFile = "$logFile.old"
        if (Test-Path $oldLogFile) {
            Remove-Item $oldLogFile
        }
        Start-Sleep 2
        Move-Item $logFile $oldLogFile
        Start-Transcript -Path $logFile -Append
    }

    Write-Output "sleeping for 12 hours"
    Start-Sleep -Seconds $(60 * 60 * 12)
}
Stop-Transcript

I have put the file simply in %appdata%\ludusavi that way it gets backed up like ludusavi itself, which I set up by adding it as a custom game (from %appdata%\ludusavi\config.yaml):

customGames:
  - name: ludusavi
    files:
      - "<winAppData>\\ludusavi\\cache.yaml"
      - "<winAppData>\\ludusavi\\config.yaml"
      - "<winAppData>\\ludusavi\\manifest.yaml"      
      - "<winAppData>\\ludusavi\\service.ps1"      
    registry: []

You want to create the service file, install nssm and change the nssm commands to use your paths/user. Then just run them and afterwards you should see a service called ludusavi. The service should start with windows and create a backup when it starts and then every 12 hours. The execution log will be saved to %appdata%\ludusavi\ludusavi_service_log.txt. And it is made sure the logs never take up more than 2MB of space.

[seniorm0ment]

It would be really nice to have this integrated directly please.

[Nekotje]

this would be great. but also for the other OSen. i use linux my self and powershell is possible in linux but not standard installed.

[Alistair1231]

this would be great. but also for the other OSen. i use linux my self and powershell is possible in linux but not standard installed.

@Nekotje The simplest solution would be a cron job (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/cron#Basic_commands) just run /path/to/ludusavi --try-manifest-update backup --force for backup and /path/to/ludusavi cloud upload --force for cloud upload