When backing up different parts of the installation have different priorities for me.
Settings: top priority, if I spent hours configuring things, I don’t want to have to do it all again. History: if a few days went missing, I can live with that.
That means:
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I want daily backups for the configuration. And I want to keep them indefinitely. A ‘settings’ only backup file is than 1MB, no problem storing thousands of them.
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I want weekly backups for the history database. And I only want to keep a single digit number of them, since they are big.
Right now I have my automatic backups set to do the first (settings only).
And when I think of it, I add a backup with the history database manually. To do that I change the setting to include the database, trigger the backup, change setting back to exclude the database (for the next automatic run), then check how many full backups I have and delete an old one if necessary to free up space.
It would be good to be able to automate this. Either:
- allow for several backup profiles, or
- expose some parameters in the backup integration, so I can use it in an automation to perform the weekly backup with history