Hello,

This looks really promising but I would like to be able to restore a single file (or multiple, but not all) from a backup. I've read the documentation and it's not obvious if this is possible. I see the export command could be a possibility but the only option without exporting the whole backup is to use excludes.

Thanks!

Description

Use ssh-config to parse ssh hosts, edit documentation to differentiate between host aliases configured in ~/.ssh/config vs FQDN hostname

Impacted action

backup | restore | config

Proposed names of the parameters (short and long)

• name parameter - maybe add an argument for ssh-host vs FQDN hostname
• possible argument(s) - host

Additional context

Description

Custom Port Argument does not seem to work, says "Error port 22 on yoga3 is closed"

Steps to Reproduce

bb backup --ssh-port 9992 --computer yoga3 --destination /mnt/Barracuda1/ --type Unix --mode Full --data System

Expected Behaviour

ssh's successfully

Your Environment

• Butterfly Backup version used: 1.8.0
• Operating System and version: Fedora 34

Additional context

yoga3 is configured in ~/.ssh/config as follows:

Host yoga3
    Hostname 192.168.1.8
    Port 9992
    User raghav
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/yoga3
    ServerAliveInterval 120
    ForwardAgent yes

The port should automatically be detected from the ssh config but isn't. Supplying it myself does not seem to work either.

ssh yoga3 works as expected

Description

I was successfully daily backing up a single directory tree using the 'differential' mode:
bb backup --computer Mint-Didier --destination /media/didier/MyDrive --mode differential --custom-data /media/didier/Disk_A/Data_A --user didier --type unix --retention 7 7 --skip-error --exclude EXCLUDED
As expected, after the first backup, the used space on 'MyDrive' is increasing very slowly, following the space took by the modified or new files.

I'm now intending to daily backup 3 directories located on 2 disks:
bb backup --computer Mint-Didier --destination /media/didier/MyDrive --mode differential --custom-data /media/didier/Disk_A/Data_A /media/didier/Disk_B/Data_B1 /media/didier/Disk_B/Data_B2 --user didier --type unix --retention 7 7 --skip-error --exclude EXCLUDED
In this configuration the used space is increasing daily of the full size of the directories backed up (ie. Data_A + Data_B1 + Data_B2). It is like if BB performed a full backup every day.

Steps to Reproduce

See the command above.

Expected Behaviour

For a differential backup the used space should increase only following the space took by the modified or new files.

Your Environment

• Butterfly Backup version used: 1.10.0
• Operating System and version: Linux Mint 21.2, kernel 5.15.0-91

Additional context

Thank you anyway for your efforts to propose this nice tool !

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

To instill confidence in the project.