Retrieve backups from veralite via ssh

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My VeraLite took a dump this past weekend. The VeraLite shows a solid blue light and a solid green light, but no orange light. I wanted to do a factory restore to see if this will help solve my problem. Prior to doing the reset I wanted to make sure I had a backup to restore after the reset. Unfortunately I don’t have a recent backup. I am able to ssh into my vera and wanted to know if there is a way to retrieve a backup via ssh? I have a usb stick, but I think the logs are the only thing that are kept there.

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Have you checked to see if the MCV servers have a recent backup? Unless you turned it off, this happens automatically every day. You will see the list on the SETUP → Backup tab after you have logged in through ACCOUNT → Login.

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My Veralite does this frequently with no orange light. I just power cycle it and everything is back to normal. Have you tried turning it off and back on?

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I’ve logged in, but I get the following message when I got to setup → backup.

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steets250;

Yes I’ve power cycled the veraLite multiple times. With the same results.

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Oh. Sorry!

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So it looks like the IPhone app is causing some issues. Normally I’d remove the the app via the web gui, but since the vera is down, is there a way to remove the app via ssh?

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To retrieve a backup via ssh, first you need to login via ssh, run this

backup-store.sh F

This will put a backup in /etc/cmh-backup/
Copy that using scp

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Another option is:

cd /etc/cmh
cp user_data.json.lzo user_data.json.lzo-1
cp user_data.json.lzo.1 user_data.json.lzo-2
cp user_data.json.lzo.1 user_data.json.lzo
/sbin/reboot

See if that fixes it … If not then try:

cp user_data.json.lzo.2 user_data.json.lzo-3
cp user_data.json.lzo.2 user_data.json.lzo
/sbin/reboot

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I’ll try your suggestions thanks guys!