Yesterday I ran into an issue (other post) thet in the end made me decide to put back a backup.
It solved the issue (so my contribution payed off)
BUT I did run into a weird issuee with the backups.
I wanted to put back my backup of 3 days agoo (i was sure the system was stable at the
At time)
It turned out thst backup was no longer available!
The last few days homey had been making multiple backups per day. So my 7 days were reduced to just 3 days backup and multiple options for yesterday.
That sucks! made a report to athom)
i decided to quickly remove several of yesterdays backups to at least make sure I would not loose the older ones.
It forced me to perform a backup sooner then I wanted (did not want to risk loosing my option to backup the 3 day old)
Luckily backup solved my issue (so it does not really suck that much )
Screenshot just shows one (realised too late to make a screenshot) there where 2 more on 27 june
Seems a bit pointless to make three backups thĆ”t close together in time (also as an aside: every developer knows to not schedule automatic stuff between 2 and 3am lest you want to either miss an action Ć³r get a duplicate when daylight savings time changes )
It had 2 more close to that time. (I deleted them before realizing to make a screenshot)
Its reported to athomā¦
No idea what would triggger these extra backups.
Since we have only 7, these extra backups caused losing 4 days of history backupsā¦
Reminder for all users that put back a backup:
If you have virtual devices or variables that keep track of a status, make sure to set them to the correct status after your backup.
My backup (2:58->at night) contained the virtual device āits darkā (and some others)
After putting back that backup during the day it caused some puzzling behaviour of my lights and the alarm.
Thought the restore had gone wrong.
Luckily I have papertrails always on, which pit me back on track pretty quick
Yes, but thats understandable.
How can homey knowā¦
Backup was made at night. When I go to bed I turn the alarm on. So virtual device was set to: āAlarm onā.
When I restored it at 14:00, my alarm was off.
Homey restored it setting the status back to āalarm onā. Its not possible for homey to recover that.
But it did result in some unexpected sounds at 1st motion detectionā¦
The status āits darkā would have recovered itself after some time.
Its set by lux measurement. But still, that flow is triggered by lux change, so it does take some time.
It is a really important information, that something could go wrong with the Backup.
Could you show me an example how you use papertrails to document the processes meaningfully. I know how papertrails works and can be used, I use it already for some things, but i just do not have a useful system.
Every Then section contains a papertrails card. The text on that card is : then - /name of the flow/
If i have a long timer in that section. I add a second card with a delay the same as the timer. Same text but with a timer addition
If I have an else I add a card there with else - /name of the flow/
In some case I add tags to the card too. For example if I have a AND that compares temp, I add both temp tags
(so my contribution payed off)
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