Waggle Upload Sync

systmed timer service to rsync the contents of the node's upload data upload folder (i.e. /media/plugin-data/uploads) to an external drive.

Note: the external drive partition should be formatted as ext4 to ensure compatibility and allow large (ex. 10GB) files sizes.

Installation and Post-Install Configuration

After installing the ∫Debian package the service will automatically run and fail as the default sync device is /dev/dummy. To enable the service to sync to the desired external media the following steps need to be taken:

1. edit the SYNC_DRIVE variable in the /etc/waggle/upload-sync.env file to the desired external media (ex. /dev/sdb2) partition
2. edit the SYNC_USB_SERIAL variable to the USB devices serial number (ex. 0376020100005389)
3. wait for the service to auto-run or force the service to start via systemctl start waggle-upload-sync.service

Note: you can discover the USB devices serial number by looking through the journal log when the USB device is inserted (i.e journalctl -f) and searching for usb and/or SerialNumber: logs

Note: you can see the logs for the service via journalctl -fu waggle-upload-sync

Customize Execution

To customize some parameters of the execution (such as the source directory) modify the /etc/waggle/upload-sync.env. The next execution of the service will pick up the .env file changes.