cytopia / cytopia/linux-timemachine
Suggestion: multiple SOURCEs
- Dominant language
- Shell
- Stars
- 841
- Forks
- 75
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Description
I'm very glad I found your project! - I like it very much.
please, enable multiple sources like rsync does:
`rsync SRC... [DEST]`
reasons:
I have multiple SOURCE dirs which I want to backup at the same time into the same TARGET. Currently, I have to issue one commandline per SOURCE
- Multiple required commands glued together into one line are ugly, but this seems to be the only way to start a multi-source `timemachine` backup from cron or other system event.
- a multi-source multi-liner produces an ugly result, because only the latest SOURCE remains in target _Current_ directory, while all other SOURCE dirs of my backub job are cluttered each into another _timestamped/past_ directory in the target.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating the command-line argument handling and the rsync-based backup entry point. Compare the requested `rsync SRC... [DEST]` form with the current behavior, including the `Current` and timestamped directories. Done means multiple source directories can be backed up together without leaving the target layout inconsistent.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100