I read a post a few days ago by @Trying_to_learn about losing his node-RED flow, which had taken him no doubt many hours to construct, and as his backup was on the same machine - he lost that too. So... I've spent a few days looking at off-site storage, and stumbled upon node-red-contrib-dsm which …

What is the consensus re .sessions.json, does it stay, or shall I remove it from the example flow config that I posted in post #1? ie. Is it necessary for .sessions.json to form part of a node-RED backup archive.

[image] Paul-Reed: What is the consensus re .sessions.json , does it stay, or shall I remove it from the example flow config that I posted in post #1? No responses... so it has now been removed from the example flow above.

Missed your original question. The sessions file contains the active login tokens for the editor. No need to back it up.

Since node-RED v1.2.0, the config.json file has been split up into seperate files, so to capture those files for the backup, please change this line in the node-red-contrib-dsm node; "cmd += pre + '.config.json';", to "cmd += pre + '.config*.json';", ...which includes the wildcard character * to…

Flow updated (see post #1 above) to include the additional package.json & package-lock.json'contained within the externalModules folder, which was introduced in v1.3.0. The changes in the DSM node are the inclusion of; "cmd += pre + 'externalModules/package.json';", "cmd += pre + 'externalModules/…

Flow updated (see post #1 above) to accommodate changes made in node-RED v2.0.0. The package.json & package-lock.json' contained within the externalModules folder, which was introduced in node-RED v1.3.0 has now been discontinued, and a .config.modules.json file added to manage the external modules…

Paul, I'm using projects, are you covering all files required also in this case?

[image] krambriw: I'm using projects, are you covering all files required Hi Walter, I haven't added projects, but it shouldn't be too difficult to add. I don't use projects, but I'm assuming that the default node-RED structure would be; .node-red |__ projects …

[image] krambriw: I'm using projects, are you covering all files required also in this case If you are using projects then you can link the project to, for example, a github repository so you won't need to back it up to usb.

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