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trigger custom backups with API? #16

@Matzeall

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@Matzeall

As far as I can tell exaronton only allows automatic backups when the server shuts down which is to rare for me. I would like backups every hour or so, when the server is running.

Ideally the exaronton website would give me more control over backups, like:

  • make backups in interval x
  • backup to some private server or self-hosted cloud instance instead of mainstream cloud providers
  • auto-delete backups, but keep
    • 10 hourly backups
    • 7 daily backups
    • two monthly backups
    • one yearly backup etc.

But that's just me and also not the point of this ticket.

The API also doesn't seem to support triggering a custom backup, which would solve this issue for me and I also think it would be a good extension to the API.
Is something like that planned?

I think there would be many use cases where this could be useful. In my specific case I would then implement a cron-job on my server to trigger a custom backup every hour when the server is running. Together with the automatic shutdown backup, that would create a good enough backup strategy for me.

That being said, exaroton is already one of the best services I have ever used and I am excited to see what you will do in the future!

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