Tips for home automation

The following pages provide information on various applications: Whether and which services should be stopped and started, which special features should be to be taken into account, whether and which actions should be taken before and after the backup and/or before and after the restore.

This page is based on feedback from raspiBackup users who are familiar with the respective applications and can describe exactly what to look out for with the the respective applications. Therefore, feedback on the GitHub discussion page is very welcome.

raspiBackup Tips for specific applications

OpenHAB

Works without problems. See here on the OpenHAB website.

ioBroker

ioBroker uses ACLs. If you are backing up to a Synology or QNAP connected via NFS, you must switch off the saving of ACLs so that rsync does not abort. See FAQ24](faq.md#faq24) on how to do this.

If you restore a backup, you can use ioBroker to recreate the missing ACLs again. You should also stop the ioBroker before the backup with systemctl stop iobroker and restart it after the backup with systemctl start iobroker after the backup. This can be done either directly in the raspiBackup configuration file at DEFAULT_START_SERVICES and DEFAULT_STOP_SERVICES or you can use the raspiBackup installer and select the ioBroker as the service to be stopped and started. The installer then generates the corresponding commands in the configuration file.

FHEM

FHEM does not use ACLs. See FAQ24 how to get rid of any ACL error messages.

FHEM runs as a system service and thus appears in the installer as a service and can be can simply be selected there with M3->C6, so that FHEM is stopped before the backup is stopped and restarted at the end.

The following commands are used for manual configuration in the Config:

systemctl stop fhem

for DEFAULT_STOPSERVICES

resp.

systemctl start fhem

for DEFAULT_STARTSERVICES

SmartHomeNG

SmartHomeNG runs as a system service and therefore appears in the installer as a service and can simply be selected there with M3->C6, so that SmartHomeNG is stopped before is stopped before the backup and restarted at the end.

If you want to configure it manually in the Config, you should include the following commands:

systemctl stop smarthome