Backup Profile Description

[chraebsli]

The current character limit of the backup profile is 20. It's difficult to create meaningful names with 20 characters only.

I would appreciate it if I could add more context to backup profiles, so I can say what this backup backs up. As an example, I have 2 profiles, one for a complete site backup, which you can extract and it's running, and one for just the data (/user without themes and plugins).

My idea: add a description field, so there is an option to describe the backups/ add more context. The description then could be displayed as a tooltip when the backup profile gets hovered, for example in the dashboard.

[pmoreno-rodriguez]

And where would you store the description information so you can retrieve it later?

[chraebsli]

I'd store it in config/backups.yaml like this (profiles[0].description):

profiles:
  -
    name: Backup name
    description: Some meaningful description about what that backup backs up
    root: /user
    exclude_paths: "/plugins\n/themes"
    exclude_files: ".DS_Store\n.git\n.svn\n.hg\n.idea\n.vscode\nnode_modules"
    schedule: true
    schedule_at: '0 0 * * 1'

[pmoreno-rodriguez]

But if you save the description in a .yaml file, which would be inside the zip of the backup, when you want to restore it, you would have to unzip the zip file and read the description line of the .yaml file, correct?

[chraebsli]

Sorry if that was unclear. I meant a description in the admin panel > tools > backups for each backup profile to optionally set.

This description then could be displayed as an aria-label/ tooltip in the web