APP: solidpod-bak: an app for backing up my Pod

New app suggestion for Pod backup app

Description

An app to provide an interface for me to automate backing up my Pod, and restoring my Pod from a backup Pod.
Users should be able to be managers of their data backups and not require the services of a sysadmin to automate backups and provide restores when needed.

A backup system would let me:

• Select or setup a new backup pod on another Solid server.
• Show the server location and owner - cloud, local, etc
• Schedule automated backups
• Notify me of backup issues (eg if routine does not finish) or if most recent backup is older than some threshold, or if the Pod diff exceeds some size
• Be encrypted by default
• Let me bulk set file access, eg to read only, for immutability
• Provide a restore function to restore data from my back up Pod to another Pod
• Encourage me test restore periodically to validate my backups as expected - pointing my apps to the backup should show and let me query my data. Validating backups and tracking backup age/obsolescence on Pods should be much easy to validate as my data is always on networked server (even if only using apps and Pods on a local network).
• Encourage me to automate backups to 2 different servers in different locations.
• Our Pod apps could query solidpod-bak and nudge people to setup backups in solidpod-bak if they don't exist/too old. This would be particularly useful in a Migrate-my-data-to-Pod app, allowing people to ingest their data to Pods and implement backups as an alternative security measure.

Why

As a user, I don't want to put important or valuable data that I require to be backed up on a storage system that doesn't have assurance of backups and/or provide a way for me to easier manage backup and restore. Valuable to these Pod users:

• corporate
• research
• individual

Alternatives

Regular sysadmin backup of our Solid servers and communication of this service to Pod users on that server.