[FEATURE] Automatically export-and-upload metadata after a run

wamdam / backy2

backy2: Deduplicating block based backup software for ceph/rbd, image files and devices

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[FEATURE] Automatically export-and-upload metadata after a run #68

Closed rjhenry closed 4 years ago

rjhenry commented 4 years ago

Hi,

Many thanks for an excellent project! As you recommend here:

After each backup you should export the generated version and store it together with your backup data (that is in the same backup storage like NFS, S3, …).

It would be nice if it were possible to automate this process in some way, perhaps backy2 backup --with-export or similar. This way, metadata is also held with data backups with no further intervention from the administrator.

Many thanks!

wamdam commented 4 years ago

Acutally no. First, exports are optional. Another option would be to just dump the database or mirror it. Second, I don't want my exports to be on the same s3 bucket as my blocks. I'd never find them again.

It's easily scriptable, so I'll leave it to the implementation.