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HeatherComputer / AdvancedBackups

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Feature request : External Backup Utils #96

Open Blue-Beaker opened 4 weeks ago

Blue-Beaker commented 4 weeks ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I want to use btrfs reflinks/snapshots to take backups and save disk space further, and want it to only make backups after the world is completely saved.

Describe the solution you'd like Add a custom backup type that executes custom command, with world folder and backup destination folder exported as environment variables, to use a external program to make backups. So user can use a command like cp --reflink=always $WORLD_DIR $BACKUP_DEST to make reflink backups with this mod.

Describe alternatives you've considered Use cron to run backup jobs, but may create a broken backup when the world is partially saved

Additional context No need to implement restoration for custom backups. The backups isn't managed by the mod.

HoldYourWaffle commented 4 weeks ago

@HeatherComputer smells like another potential application of SPI's... 👀

For reference: SimpleBackups rejected shell functionality because of security concerns, see https://github.com/ChaoticTrials/SimpleBackups/issues/25#issuecomment-2291022984.