Ho ho ho Knimers,
finally, after the Knime Community Hacking days have concluded, I am proud to share with you version 2, with a wealth of improvements and new features, of my backup workflow, previously published in this post:
What’s new?
In short, abandoning build in Windows zip in favor of 7Zip, improving interoperability and providing a feature rich, much faster and more reliable, backup method!
In detail
- Biggest change: Restore Feature (Restore from AWS S3 WIP)
- Chose between backup locations Workflow Data Directory (default), Local (can be a network or thumb drive) or AWS S3
- True delta Processing even with enabled compression
- Ability to set a password
- CRC Checks by default to ensure data integrity
- Compression level can be selected to balance size and speed
- Parallel processing / compression if individual / per workflow archives are chosen
- Log details
- Various bug fixes
- And maybe more which I forgot about
About the restore
- Interactive View
- Select your backup source root
- Select your destination root where the data should be extracted into
- Knime automatically searches for the archive file “workflow-lastmod.table”, updates the filter and displays the preview
- If a password is set, the input automatically appears
- Knime generates the command and you only have to execute everything
If data exists in the destination, it is overwritten BUT only the delta. Meaning, any temp data will remain. I have to integrate a process that offers to:
- Keep a backup by appending a “-bak”
- Wipe the destination root before extracting
As before, I’d love to hear your feedback and hope you find the backup workflow as useful as I do i.e.:
- when synchronizing between multiple workstations
- backing up before major Knime releases
- Restore if Windows Update or a ransomware attack, virus, you name it bricks your system
Cheers
Mike
