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Right now I have to individually choose each site to back up..this will quickly become tedious. As it stands phpMyAdmin is faster...for manual backups. But with the naming issue (see my other posts) snapshot isn't just there yet, BUT it is VERY close...
What of the ability to back up all at once? And the time not encrypted but actually YYYY.MM.DD.HH.mm etc...
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Hey again,
Makes sense to me. I am quite surprised to see that it isn't an option already, surprised to a point that I wonder if I missed out anything. Definitely a feature request :)
The name already has the date, but I don't think the time exists:
snapshot-1334636281-120417-041801-e488c48f.zip
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I was hoping the second half to be the time, but looks like it doesn't. You could always refer to the time of creation (if you are browsing your files via Filezilla or some FTP client) and decide when was it made.
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aoirthoir, the time is part of the filename. Here is the breakdown using Arun's example filename:
snapshot-1334636281-120417-041801-e488c48f.zip
snapshot - Always there. This helps identify the snapshot files visually should the admin possible move the destination folder to some common destination where images or other files are stored.
1334636281 - This is the snapshot key. From the snapshot listing page when you edit a Snapshot entry this is a unique timestamp in seconds when the entry was created. If you have setup scheduling for an entry all snapshots created will be this same value. At first I was using the blog ID (1, 2, 3, etc) but realize for a blog you could setup multiple snapshot entries.
120417 - yymmdd of the snapshot file.
041801 - hhmmss (GMT) of the snapshot file.
e488c48f - The first 8 character checksum of the created file.
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aoirthoir, Also to answer the other part of your question regarding backups all at once for multiple site. I agree this is needed. Especially when some Multisite system have hundreds or thousands of blogs. This is coming in one form or another. We are trying to ease into the Multisite backups and listen to our users on how they want this to function. You are not the only one who has made this request. I've been working on some programing specs for upcoming releases.
The tentative roadmap for Snapshot is something like the following over the next few releases:
a. Include Files in backups. As you are aware the snapshot archive only include the database dumps.
b. Store copy of backups to remote destinations. Dropbox, Amazon S3, remote FTP/SFTP
c. Migration from single site to Multisite. Migration from Multisite to single site.
Again thanks for the suggestion. It has been added to the features list.
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Hey again,
Makes sense to me. I am quite surprised to see that it isn't an option already, surprised to a point that I wonder if I missed out anything. Definitely a feature request :)
The name already has the date, but I don't think the time exists:
snapshot-1334636281-120417-041801-e488c48f.zip
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Thank you. I suspect the time might be encoded there? But just need it human readable.
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I was hoping the second half to be the time, but looks like it doesn't. You could always refer to the time of creation (if you are browsing your files via Filezilla or some FTP client) and decide when was it made.
But definitely time is important IMO :)
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aoirthoir, the time is part of the filename. Here is the breakdown using Arun's example filename:
snapshot-1334636281-120417-041801-e488c48f.zip
snapshot - Always there. This helps identify the snapshot files visually should the admin possible move the destination folder to some common destination where images or other files are stored.
1334636281 - This is the snapshot key. From the snapshot listing page when you edit a Snapshot entry this is a unique timestamp in seconds when the entry was created. If you have setup scheduling for an entry all snapshots created will be this same value. At first I was using the blog ID (1, 2, 3, etc) but realize for a blog you could setup multiple snapshot entries.
120417 - yymmdd of the snapshot file.
041801 - hhmmss (GMT) of the snapshot file.
e488c48f - The first 8 character checksum of the created file.
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aoirthoir, Also to answer the other part of your question regarding backups all at once for multiple site. I agree this is needed. Especially when some Multisite system have hundreds or thousands of blogs. This is coming in one form or another. We are trying to ease into the Multisite backups and listen to our users on how they want this to function. You are not the only one who has made this request. I've been working on some programing specs for upcoming releases.
The tentative roadmap for Snapshot is something like the following over the next few releases:
a. Include Files in backups. As you are aware the snapshot archive only include the database dumps.
b. Store copy of backups to remote destinations. Dropbox, Amazon S3, remote FTP/SFTP
c. Migration from single site to Multisite. Migration from Multisite to single site.
Again thanks for the suggestion. It has been added to the features list.
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Fantastic. You've covered everything that needs to be covered frankly in your roadmap and your timestamp question helped me.
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