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#37 Windows DB Backup

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John L
Backup (1)
2016-03-21
2015-12-01
Divya B
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DB backup is one of the essential feature for desktop pos. It will be good if we see an inbuild functionality for DB backup in chromis pos.

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  • Jonathan Z

    Jonathan Z - 2015-12-06

    Can be done with HeidiSQL (Free software) easily.

     
  • Divya  B

    Divya B - 2015-12-09

    Jonathan I'm looking for enduser who may not having knowledge on external tolls. If we have a simple button in the pos app to take backup and to restore the db that will be useful.

     
  • Janvl

    Janvl - 2015-12-11

    Hi

    I use Auto-Mysql-Backup-win-15 on windows, only problem it ruines umlauts in german.
    One must give "--default-character-set=latin1" as parameter to the mysqldump command.
    Then your backup will have it's umlauts too.
    There is a similar but better script for linux too.
    Run it with the scheduler of your OS.

    The backup-directory is synchronised with an owncloud-instance especially for my customers,
    https and with an encrypted filesystem.

    Regards,
    Jan

     

    Last edit: Janvl 2015-12-11
  • Ray

    Ray - 2016-01-06

    Like the idea. Especially if chromis asks to do backup (maybe even to dropbox) and full system shutdown on exit.

     
  • olly

    olly - 2016-01-19

    Its all perfect done with a script which starts a batchfile i found i think in the unicenta forum, but maybe it is also here now..
    It makes a "mysqldump" ... is packing the sql file over the comandline with "7z" automatically to the dropbox folder. And all integrated with a button in the pos...
    Easier it is not possible and i think there are more important and more dificult problems to solve for the developer team...

     
  • Janvl

    Janvl - 2016-01-19

    Loading financial Data onto Dropbox is not exactly compliant with the most basic security-rules. Olly describes Automysql.bat, starting it with the windows scheduler makes it invisible for the user, install and forget. Just check once in a while. And do not use Dropbox.

     
  • olly

    olly - 2016-01-19

    Thanks for the security advice, but using dropbox with viivo... there is no problem.
    Only the plain passwords in the batch-file is maybe a problem but if you cannot trust your employers, better you close your store....

     

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