Is there a way to automate the flow backup? I see we can export all flows but it would be good to have a nightly process to back this up. Something we can schedule in a cron using CLI or even better, create a backup flow that will backup all of the tabs?

Node-RED logs the name of the flow file when it starts up. You can setup whatever process you want to copy that and the accompanying credentials file (same as your flow file, but with _creds added) to wherever you want. There is also the Projects feature that allows you to have version control inte…

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cflurin 3 November 2019 08:50 8

I use the dsm node for the flow backup, including the context files.
It builds a zip file yyy-mm-ddThhmmss_nr.zip, which is sent to dropbox.

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