Expand REST API for backups

[jpierre-mm]

Expected Behavior (or desired behavior if a feature request)

Would like to trigger and retrieve backups via the REST API to enable automation using the hosted Snipe-IT service.

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Actual Behavior

Doesn't appear to be any API for this at the moment

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[jpierre-mm]

This is still relevant. Thanks

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[lesinigo]

After more than two years I see we have an API endpoint to list and download backups, but there is none to trigger the creation of a new backup. It would be really useful to be able to execute backups without having to depend on the internal scheduling.

The internal scheduler does not - afaik - allow to change from the default weekly scheduling, at least not without changing the application code which I'd prefer to avoid since I'm using the official docker images and that change would be lost at every container restart.

[snipe]

The internal scheduler does not - afaik - allow to change from the default weekly scheduling

You can run that directly via cron if you want it to fire at a different interval. https://snipe-it.readme.io/docs/configuring-alerts-backups

Snipe-IT Documentation

Configuring Alerts & Backups

Starting from Snipe-IT v3.0, all automated tasks are handled via the scheduler. To set a cron job to run every minute to ping the scheduler:Shell * /path/to/php /path/to/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1 The scheduler already knows how often it should trigger the individual tasks, ...