Server Configuration Backup Plugin zip backups

[DelSol 10]

Hey guys, 

the Server Config Backup plugin creates a lot of small files, mostly xml. As there is no incremental backup anyway, wouldn't it be nice to just zip the whole backup? Thats probably a one liner and would make handling backups much easier.

 

[DelSol 10]

I made a quick workaround for everyone with the same issue. A bash script thats triggered via cron 10 minutes after the backup job in emby.

would still be nice to do this within the plugin right away in my opinion.

#!/bin/bash
cd /your/emby/backup/folder
shopt -s dotglob
find * -prune -type d | while IFS= read -r d; do 
    
    string="$d"
     if [[ $string == *"Emby Backup"* ]]; then
            echo "$d" is getting zipped
            zip -r "$d".zip "$d"
            rm -r "$d"
    fi
done

[Luke 42077]

Hi, yes I agree it probably would make sense. Thanks for the feedback.

[Adorkable 9]

Can this function be optimized? Backing up a large number of small files in multiple locations causes the backup to be unusually long. Scripts can solve the problem, but they are not as elegant as the built-in implementation.

Edited January 16, 2025 by Adorkable

[Luke 42077]

12 hours ago, Adorkable said:

Can this function be optimized? Backing up a large number of small files in multiple locations causes the backup to be unusually long. Scripts can solve the problem, but they are not as elegant as the built-in implementation.

Hi, it is optimized in the sense that the first backup will be slow as it has to copy all files, but subsequent backups will only be copying changes that have occurred since the last one.