monich / harbour-mybackup

Backup extension for Sailfish OS

My Backup

Allows to add arbitrary files and dconf keys to Sailfish OS backups. Requires Sailfish OS 3.2 or greater.

Sailfish OS applications can declare what they need to be added to the backup by providing [X-HarbourBackup] section in their desktop file, which looks like this:

[X-HarbourBackup]
BackupPathList=.local/share/foil/:Documents/FoilAuth/
BackupConfigList=/apps/harbour-foilauth/

BackupPathList is a colon-separated list of files and directories to backup. Paths are relative to the home directory. Directory names end with a slash and are copied recursively. Absolute paths are ignored.

BackupConfigList is a colon-separated list of dconf keys and groups. Similarly to directories, group names end with a slash and are saved and restored recursively. There is one important difference, though - the existing contents of dconf groups is lost during restore and is completely replaced by whatever was saved in the backup.

Stay safe, backup often!

harbour-mybackup's Issues

Backing up files outside home directory

Hello,
Is it possible to backup files from outside the home directory? I, for example want to backup a file that is stored in /home/.android, but have not found a way to do so via the interface of your app.
Thanks!

Infinite loop if home directory is added to the backup

Temporary backup files are being created under ~/.local/share/system/privileged/Backups-tmp and if those are included into the backup, the copying process will only stop when it runs out of space.

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"Add backup item"

Consider hard-linking vs copying during backup

The backup process can be sped up by hard-linking the files being backed up (instead of copying them to the temporary directory) if both source and destination directories are on the same filesystem.