Hey Chris,
At the moment there is no plan to re-add the feature. If you’d like to make a request for us to ad the zips back as a feature could you make a new post in the community? this post is about a different issue that has already been fixed and it would help with my tracking to have it separately.
Why would you want to have the files sent up as zips rather than a folder? Is it to save on space or to do easier organization or something else?
-Kyle
@Kyle
in the case that you have file with externally stored files (encrypted) then generating a zip of the whole backup thing is simpler for file management on the Wasabi end. It’s one file per day for the main backup not a massive list of files in deeper folders.
In my case the answer is for neatness.
I am using a shell script to create the zip from the backup and then use s3cmd to transfer it, although we are now looking at rclone
Restoring the whole system is then a case of copying the one zip file back to the server, unzipping, setting permission and moving to live folder.
Because I have that working already then I am OK with it not being in Otto… Doing the zipping is resource intensive, and then the final file is obviously large so the transfer software needs to be able to chunk the transfer.
Hey John,
RClone should be fine to push large files up to offsite locations. I’ll look at an option for zipping, but it will dramatically increase the complexity of how we’re doing offsites, likely leading to more issues. That’s the main reason I’m unsure of putting in this feature. I’ll add it to our list though, it sounds like there are at least a few of y’all that want this.
-Kyle