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[Neo Andersson 149]

@jgab Hello Jan

 

I was able to make a function that retrieves the backup possibility..

 

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Now i want to make the function that creates the backup, would you be so kind to assist a little bit, how to formulate the POST call, and what is what inside the BODY that should be set. Its not celar for me. This is the BODY in SWAGGER

 

 

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I think we should set the action to  "create", the description is obviusly the description, the type can be i think local or remote (jsut my guess), but what to do with ID and the version?

How would the HTTP post look like?

 

Thanks a lot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Sankotronic 2,124]

Hi @Neo Andersson ,

 

You don't need to worry about version and ID, this is handled by HC3. All you need to provide is this payload:

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At least this is how it works on HC2. Comparing HC2 and HC3 backup records it looks the same therefore I expect that payload for adding backup is also the same.

[jgab 1,986]

In ER5 now there is a hc3api.get(), hc3api.put(), hc3api.post(), hc3api.delete() available now that is like api.* but it makes 

net.HTTPClient calls with credentials.

Allows us to do ex. the backups stuff simpler.

 

we need to set the magic variable _creds with the credentials

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and we can make the calls synchronous without waiting for a callback.

 

We can do it even better by defining special function for ex. retrieving backups

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We have a backups(typ) function that return either the remotes or the locals backups.

The rule calls it and creates a log message with all remote backups with id, description, and time stamp

 

[Neo Andersson 149]

4 hours ago, Sankotronic said:

Hi @Neo Andersson ,

 

You don't need to worry about version and ID, this is handled by HC3. All you need to provide is this payload:

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At least this is how it works on HC2. Comparing HC2 and HC3 backup records it looks the same therefore I expect that payload for adding backup is also the same.

thanks

[Neo Andersson 149]

24 minutes ago, jgab said:

In ER5 now there is a hc3api.get(), hc3api.put(), hc3api.post(), hc3api.delete() available now that is like api.* but it makes 

net.HTTPClient calls with credentials.

Allows us to do ex. the backups stuff simpler.

 

we need to set the magic variable _creds with the credentials

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and we can make the calls synchronous without waiting for a callback.

 

We can do it even better by defining special function for ex. retrieving backups

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We have a backups(typ) function that return either the remotes or the locals backups.

The rule calls it and creates a log message with all remote backups with id, description, and time stamp

 

Ohh man, this is not my level at this point to understand..:-) Okay i will try...

So i need to create a rule with that _cred magic variable that holds my actual credentials. I suppose _cred is kinda inbuilt variable in ER5 right? So that is used behind the scenes in rule rule("b = hc3api.get('/service/backups'); log('%s',b)"), and variable b will hold a table with all backups.  So i can use a similar approach to get back backupStatuses like 

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[Neo Andersson 149]

I have managed to create a backup with a Http call, but it made a backup that is way larger than it should be. It is probably due to the option "Save the content of history". However, there is no parameter, that is related to this option.

 

 

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Anyone has any knowledge, where to set this parameter in a HTTP call? 

The swagger shows only these parameters that can be sent

 

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There is nothing related to historical data

 

Edited December 10, 2023 by Neo Andersson

[Sankotronic 2,124]

Hi @Neo Andersson ,

 

just to complete this thread, as you already get info from @m.roszak, call to make backup skipping history data is something like this:

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Is that correct?

 

[Neo Andersson 149]

1 hour ago, Sankotronic said:

Hi @Neo Andersson ,

 

just to complete this thread, as you already get info from @m.roszak, call to make backup skipping history data is something like this:

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Is that correct?

 

Yes, correct

[Neo Andersson 149]

I am sharing here a little QA that manages backups. Some can use it in block scenes, and link it to some exact time, and make it automatic. I will wrap it into my ER5 system later, but so far maybe some will find this usefull.

I would appreciate any feedback about it, as testing is quite cumbersome, as every time it succedes, my system restarts  due to the succesfull backup downloading. I have tested it with both local and cloud types, and worked fine.

Just fill up the QA variables with you crednetials and IP address.

 

 

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