Automating local backups of UniFi OS Server on Linux with uos-backup

Earlier today, I migrated my self-hosted UniFi controller from Network Manager to UniFi OS Server. One of the annoyances of the new setup is that it does not allow automated local backups - just automated backups to Ubiquiti’s cloud. Fortunately, one can work around this. Set up a new user In the UniFi interface, I set up a new local user, backup, to use for this automated backup. Set up uos-backup I am using uos-backup. uos-backup is a simple Python scripts which someone has kindly written and shared. I did the following, on the machine I wanted to use to take and store the backups. Get the code: git clone https://gitlab.com/faerbit/uos-backup.git Change to the directory with the code: cd uos-backup Edit the python script, for the correct URL, username for my new backup user, and password. Check that the requirements are met: sudo apt install python3-requests -y Copy the script to /usr/local/bin/: sudo cp uos-backup.py /usr/local/bin/ Make it executable: sudo chmod +x…