Better scheduling

[mase76]

Hi! What do you think about implementing a better scheduling of backups? I think, checkboxing weekdays and entering one daytime would be a good choice. So for example you could say, a backup starts Sundays and Thursdays at 13:00.

[jensstein]

hmm, i did consider doing it like that first made the implementation. but i ended up this solution because it fits my own needs better. i'm not interested in whether my backup runs on a monday or a thursday but i care about having it run regularly. and with a week-oriented system you are forced into the restrictions of a seven day week. if i want my backup to run every second or third day there would be no logical way to express that in a week system. so while i'd like to keep the current system, i could maybe add a chooser for week days onto it. how do you think about that?

[mase76]

I think, a well defined time should be possible. The idea, adding a weekday chooser additional to the current system is a good one. So the user can choose between interval and weekday. The hour of the day selection is ok for both. What do the other users think?

[DJaeger]

I think having both options is a great idea. So you can choose for example to run a full backup every sunday night and a backup of more critical apps every third night and the most critical every night. Also an automatic cleanup of removed apps would be great.

[jensstein]

@DJaeger could i get you to open a new issue with your last suggestion? and maybe expand a bit upon it. what kind of cleanup do you have in mind (removing backups, removing files in /data/, something else)?

[DJaeger]

See #104

[mase76]

A fixed day and clocktime would make it better possible to do an scheduled rsync backup after oandbackup finished.