TimG wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:55 pmFor my Homeseer set up, I ended up with various sub programs (Node Red/ DeConz/ LogTemp etc) that had to be manually started before Homeseer itself. To get around that, I use an old program called "startup-delayer" from
https://www.r2.com.au/page/products/sho ... p-delayer/
Cool, I'll give that a try. I've been trying to launch it with a Scheduled Task, either directly or by way of a powershell script but no luck yet. I like to try and make a native solution first, but Startup-Delayer may be just the ticket.
On another note, I swapped out the old BI box HDD to an SSD. I used "Macrium Reflect" (free) to do the original cloning from my spinny-rust HDD to the new SSD. Worked perfectly and only took less than 10 minutes.
After that was done, I set Macrium up so that it would clone the SSD back to the old HDD every Sunday at 2am so I would always have a fully-ready bootable image online. I may change this so it clones every night but I'm not sure if it's needed.
I still do backups, but this way if the SSD dies then I just boot from the old HDD, get a new SSD and clone the HDD to it. Then I'll swap back to booting from the SSD and I'm back where I started, no muss no fuss.
I'm not even sure if backups are truly necessary at this point. I suppose the HDD could fail but I'd find that out then next morning when I see an error message from Macrium saying it couldn't clone to the target drive.