Gargoyle Forum

Lantis wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 24, 2025 1:55 am

Glad that’s working for you!

Me too, just wondering, why wouldn't the backup built into Gargoyle, at least have an option to backup everything?

Lantis wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 24, 2025 1:55 am

hope you’re enjoying summer shutdown!

Always

Update After having a chat with Google AI ;-P I have learnt that all I need to back up, to clone my install is to add the /overlay/ folder to /usr/lib/gargoyle/create_backup.sh' and that seem to get all my changes and the plugins. Once I restore that backup I need to reboot the router and everything...

OpenVPN you should only need to save everything at /etc/openvpn/. I have finally got around to testing out my custom backup, well only restoring it at the moment. It seems to restore most of what I want backed up. I have to actually try to use it to see if it functions. This is my list of backup lo...

Apparently
find . -type f -mtime -7

will list files that have changed over the last 7 days.

all 41092 of them.

Will have to do that after I install a plugin

Apparently
find . -mmin -10
works in Linux to find files changed over 10 minutes but not in Gargoyle.

So copying everything to a computer using WinSCP, then copying it all back, once router was in a usable state could work? Maybe after deleting everything first? What about changing the create backup file to backup all the root folders and subsequently all the files in them. Wouldn't restoring the b...

A much more clean suggestion, learn the build environment and customise your own build to have the plugins you want pre installed and the modifications pre-done as well. You could even have your network preconfigured etc etc. Love to be able to do that, no idea how to though. With the backup idea, ...

While you could copy everything, So copying everything to a computer using WinSCP, then copying it all back, once router was in a usable state could work? Maybe after deleting everything first? A further thought was wonder how you make a custom sysupgrade file. Which is where Lantis post may be lea...

I have posted a question about another idea in the feature requests section.

viewtopic.php?t=18255

Has anyone tried cloning a Gargoyle install? Specifically for restoring a crashed install to a state before whatever change caused the crash. By crash I mean router appears to be function according to lights, but I cannot get the login screen to appear. My solution is factory reset, and either a hea...

I think I have done it, I have added the following to the backup /etc/tor.firewall /usr/lib/gargoyle/tempinfo.sh /www/i18n/English-EN/dhcp.js /usr/lib/gargoyle/create_backup.sh and they seem to be in the backup. that's for 1.15.X (Built 20240702-0125 git@ab461167) build I have installed the latest G...