Mremoteng: Configurable backups

[benwa]

I would like to be able to configure:

• how often a backup is performed (daily, weekly, only on setting change)
• how many backups are retained
• where the backups are saved

[benwa]

In addition to this, though a bit specific to my setup:
I keep the config file in a network share that get's backed up to AWS S3, which does versioning on it's own (this may apply to other backup software too). By having the filename include the date, it creates a bunch of files in S3.
It's not the worst problem, but if I could also chose the backup naming scheme, then I could do something like backup1, backup2, and backup3 and have them rotate.

[vmario89]

hi. I think the same about backing up files. because i use mremote really often it messed my directory with too much backup files of connection settings. Each file is around 1~2 mb which easily generates hundreds of megabytes in some days.

[sparerd]

I plan on adding options to control the backup settings from the regular Options pages in the next major release (v1.77). That work will be pretty quick and easy.

[padillah]

I'd like to help with this but I can't assign it to me. What should I do?

[sparerd]

Thanks for offering to help, @padillah! Here's a rough list of what would need to be done:

• Update the Ui\Forms\OptionsPages\ConnectionsPage and add controls for the desired settings.
  
  
  
  • Keep in mind that this page will need to work well on multiple monitor scaling settings. Use TableLayoutPanels for any sort of complex layout design.
  
  
  • Any UI text should be placed in the Resources\Language\Language.resx file so our translators can provider localizations. Bind the text to your controls in the public override void ApplyLanguage() method.
  
  
  • Hook up the controls to the relevant mRemoteNG.Settings entries in the following methods:
    
    
    
    
    
    • public override void LoadSettings()
    
    
    
    • public override void SaveSettings()
    
    
    
  
  
• You may need to update the FileBackupCreator class to support some of these settings. This class is responsible for adding backup support to file-based saving actions.

If you have any questions, I'd be happy to help!

[sparerd]

@padillah I can't see your comments anymore, so not sure if you've deleted them/figured out the answer to your question. If not, take a look at the code-behind for the ConnectionsPage form. You can assign the localization text to form elements in the ApplyLanguage() method in that .cs file.

[padillah]

Yeah, sorry. I found it. Forgive me for being jumpy, this is my first foray into Open Source and I'm a bit nervous. Thanks for the patience.

[sparerd]

Don't worry, you'll be just fine :)

[padillah]

Ready for review (sorry about the extra PR)