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    Sync Game Saves/States to Dropbox or similar?

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    • marctv
      marctv last edited by

      B*mp. Is there some kind of tutorial how to accomplish this the right way? Automatic backups of our saves to dropbox, NAS or GoogleDrive would be nice. I think of the backup tool in KODI and OSMC to backup the configuration.

      https://t.co/M2EAo6yzyk

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      • acris
        acris last edited by

        Hello megatools are installed in recalbox 4.0.0b3 , it's for mega account. https://github.com/megous/megatools you can use a NAS for your roms, not need backup. https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Load-your-roms-from-a-network-shared-folder-(EN)

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        • esmith13
          esmith13 last edited by

          Currently I have settled on using a windows batch file on my PC at each location to sync my saves and states between the multiple recalboxes via dropbox (could be any syncing service). It is very basic and of course a manual process on running the batch file but it works well for now until (hopefully) something gets "baked in" to the recalbox itself.

          My Raspberry Pi's:
          Pi A, Pi B, (2) Pi B+, (2) Pi 3
          Currently looking for a reason to buy a Pi Zero or two ;-)

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          • marctv
            marctv last edited by

            Yes, I know that it is somehow possible to do this with fstab to mount a NAS network location. But this is overwritten after every update. What about a real feature for everyone?

            https://t.co/M2EAo6yzyk

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            • retrogamenx
              retrogamenx last edited by

              I have used rclone in a D-Link NAS successfully to backup my data to Dropbox. It supports several cloud services, could be an option. http://rclone.org/

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              • marctv
                marctv last edited by

                No everyone owns a NAS. But most people own a cloud storage service (google, dropbox, etc). Can't we copy the function from the kodi project over to recalbox? They do it exactly  the ways those are described here: sync to dropbox, googledrive or network path with a scheduler.

                https://t.co/M2EAo6yzyk

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                • retrogamenx
                  retrogamenx last edited by

                  That was only an example, you don't need a NAS to run rclone! Please follow these steps to get rclone running in your recalbox and so have the ability to sync with your Dropbox: 1) SSH your recalbox 2) Download the rclone: # wget http://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-v1.30-linux-arm.zip 3) Unzip: # unzip rclone-v1.30-linux-arm.zip 4) Link the recalbox with Dropbox: # cd rclone-v1.30-linux-arm # ./rclone config e) Edit existing remote n) New remote d) Delete remote s) Set configuration password q) Quit config e/n/d/s/q> n name> remote Type of storage to configure. Choose a number from below, or type in your own value 1 / Amazon Cloud Drive \ "amazon cloud drive" 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph) \ "s3" 3 / Backblaze B2 \ "b2" 4 / Dropbox \ "dropbox" 5 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive) \ "google cloud storage" 6 / Google Drive \ "drive" 7 / Hubic \ "hubic" 8 / Local Disk \ "local" 9 / Microsoft OneDrive \ "onedrive" 10 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH) \ "swift" 11 / Yandex Disk \ "yandex" Storage> 4 Dropbox App Key - leave blank normally. app_key> Dropbox App Secret - leave blank normally. app_secret> Remote config Please visit: https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize?client_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&response_type=code Enter the code: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -------------------- [remote] app_key = app_secret = token = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -------------------- y) Yes this is OK e) Edit this remote d) Delete this remote y/e/d> y e) Edit existing remote n) New remote d) Delete remote s) Set configuration password q) Quit config e/n/d/s/q> q 5) Test the connection: # ./rclone lsd remote: 6) Follow the rclone documentation for usage: http://rclone.org/docs/

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                  • marctv
                    marctv last edited by

                    that would be an answer I expected in the retropie boards. 😉 So seriously: Maybe this is something someone could implement with an UI in recalbox?

                    https://t.co/M2EAo6yzyk

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                    • retrogamenx
                      retrogamenx last edited by

                      I can leave without this, but for sure the feature would add some nice possibilities. I could recompile recalbox to have rclone by default, but I don't know how to deal with Emulationstation programming to integrate it in the UI.

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                      • rockaddicted
                        rockaddicted last edited by

                        Hi, for your information, this kind of feature should be available upstream in recalbox 4.1. A first pull request to implement it has been merged yesterday. So wait and see. https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-buildroot/pull/387

                        Recalbox V4.1.0 - RPI3 OC - Xbox360 wireless
                        Wiki ENG : https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Mini-How-To-(EN)
                        Wiki FR : https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Mini-How-To-(FR)

                        Don't forget to upvote messages if it has been useful ;)

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                        • marctv
                          marctv last edited by

                          you rock... addicted. 🙂 Great to hear that.

                          https://t.co/M2EAo6yzyk

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