Butterfly Backup enhancement : text file for the '--custom-data' command ?

[didier33170]

Description

For the 'backup' mode there is an option [File_list.txt] that allow to use a text file in case of several hostnames, to be backed up. It would be useful to have the same option for the '--custom-data' command. I'm intending to daily backup up to 5 directory trees.In that case the command line starts to be very long, with the full path of each directory, and so difficult to read and to maintained.

Impacted action

backup

[MatteoGuadrini]

Hi @didier33170, thanks so much for your suggestion! This feature is a nice idea. The way I conceived it, it can be implemented in two different ways:

• making the argument accept --custom-data as well as path also files (and then treat the files as you indicated)
• making a new argument like --file-path and accepting a single file as an argument and processing it (in case the paths inside it are invalid, skip with warning).

Personally I prefer the second choice, given that the unique value of the argument does not allow for errors. What do you think, could it go?

[didier33170]

Hello Matteo. Many thanks for the interest and proposals! Yes, the second option would be easy to use, like '--file-path [File_list.txt]'. But both options could works. With the second, the risk of error is moved from the command line to the syntax of the .txt file.

[MatteoGuadrini]

Added --file-data argument on backup action into version 1.11.0