Deployment backups to a designated drive

When you run a deployment (which my people just call a “build”). A lovely set of backups are created and kept in the “OttoFMS Deployment Backups.” What I would love is an ability to then send those backups to a network drive. In this case it’s something we call the “Y drive.” everything gets put away for the time when some developer realizes that they need the file.

What would also be useful to me is if we could get the same thing for staging files because inevitably someone will say. "Oh, I need such and such data from such and such file.

Currently, the way I do this is to run the daily backup without verification on both machines, then turn the back up off (because the migration will occur during the usual backup time, and we don’t want it starting). The run a script that copies the files from the latest backup to the /Y drive. Of course I have to edit the script on both machines every time.

Hey Fred,

OttoFMS has no way to do this, and I’m not sure it would make sense to include it in OttoFMS. You could likely set this up using a post-deployment script or a deployment webhook that would send out when the deployment completes.

-Kyle

Yeah, but it never hurts to ask :slight_smile: .

I could maybe see adding a path override for the deployment backups folder, but old deployment backups get deleted once there are more than the “Deployment backups to keep” setting, so it would only keep the most recent few even if you were putting them into a network drive.

-Kyle