Enhancement request: File organization and naming
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Hi David,
We had a brief chat about this over email, but I wanted to expand on it.
As it is, Updraft Plus creates NINE files for every backup, for one site of mine, and of course 4 for smaller sites. This is a lot to manage, especially through Dropbox’s web interface. That’s 9 right-click and deletes if I’m cleaning up, PER BACKUP. Or worse, if I need to download them, that’s 9 separate downloads – on ADSL I usually can only have one or two going at once.
That’s a lot of RSI-inducing care and feeding.
What I’d prefer is a single backup file. If that isn’t a good idea for whatever reason, at least sub-folders for each site and for each backup. Then I can right-click on the folder and download the entire backup set from whatever level of hierarchy I need.
And naming… I don’t need the word “backup” in front of every backup file, since I can see I am in the Updraft directory. Also, the site name should be before the date, so that I can sort by name (if they’re going to remain in one big dir) and get them clustered that way. The way you have the dates formatted now (year-month-day) will mean sorting by name will also sort chronologically after sorting by the site name. Very handy.
If I want to see the backups chronologically (not by site and then by chronological), I can just use the Dropbox file manage to do that.
I hope that’s helpful.
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