verbose backup
Posted: Wednesday 24 October 2018 23:51
I've run into database corruption a few times now, and every time it was a struggle to get out of it. A straight forward DB restore sometimes also restores the corruption.
Made me think of a potential improvement. Before I raise this at Github, just wanted to throw it out there and see how the community feels about it.
My suggestion is to add the following functions to the backup/restore tab/:
backup-verbose. This results in a text file, with one line for each object in the database.
restore-verbose. This function would read a text file, create objects in the db
init-db. clean the db.
This would give the enduser two powerful options: first, backup/init/rebuild the database, removing any corruption.
Also, as a spinoff, the user could manually add devices to the text file before rebuilding. Although this last function may need some more thinking, to prevent bad things happening...
Any thoughts?
Made me think of a potential improvement. Before I raise this at Github, just wanted to throw it out there and see how the community feels about it.
My suggestion is to add the following functions to the backup/restore tab/:
backup-verbose. This results in a text file, with one line for each object in the database.
restore-verbose. This function would read a text file, create objects in the db
init-db. clean the db.
This would give the enduser two powerful options: first, backup/init/rebuild the database, removing any corruption.
Also, as a spinoff, the user could manually add devices to the text file before rebuilding. Although this last function may need some more thinking, to prevent bad things happening...
Any thoughts?