EAP Controller 2.5.3 for Linux

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EAP Controller 2.5.3 for Linux

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Re:EAP Controller 2.5.3 for Linux
2017-12-02 08:41:23

DocJones wrote

That's fine for an uninstall/reinstall, but if you're migrating, or replacing a broken server, those files won't necessarily exist any more. They should have a UI-based means to export/back up the DB and maps.


Wether you use a web UI or CLI commands to produce a backup file does not really matter. What matters is to make such backup files before the server crashes or gets replaced.
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Re:EAP Controller 2.5.3 for Linux
2017-12-02 08:52:01
I'm just saying, it should be made available through the UI (in the same place where the config backup is), so it's easy for users to back up all the stuff. Making users do multiple different things (go into the UI to back up configs, then go into CLI to back up other crap) to get all the stuff backed up is a great way to make sure users will be lazy or forget, and not get all the stuff backed up. It really can't be that hard to have a button that says "gzip the DB and maps and shove it at the user" (I could do such a thing in PHP in about 10 minutes), so why not make life easier for users?
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Re:EAP Controller 2.5.3 for Linux
2017-12-03 01:29:19
While it undoubtedly would be nice to have such a button in the web UI for the Windows style of doing something regularly such as backups, I just reminded to how this things are done in the Linux style: of course you do not backup things manually if it can be done on the CLI and therefore suits perfectly to being scripted. We got a computer, don't we?

BUT: before adding a web UI button to the Linux version of the controller, please, TP-Link, add a "backup" option to the start/stop script like it has been done in Pharos Control, so Linux guys don't need to do two backups, one through the web UI and one for the maps.

Maybe TP-Links Windoze R&D team can add the button in the Windows version of the Controller, while the Linux R&D team can add it in the control script, and eventually they exchange both their work to each other. :D
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