How does the iOS backup work?
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last edited byIn Pythonista, I want to maintain a local .db file of 2 GB.
My iOS backup is on iCloud and the file is already saved in a previous backup.
The "next backup size" (settings/iCloud/iCloud storage/manage storage) is some MB, this is normal.
I only add one little record in the dB file and this "next backup size" just goes to 2 GB.
I hoped that only some bytes need to be backuped, thus I don't understand how this iOS backup works...It seems that if an app file is modified, the entire file would be in the next backup. Thus, I should abandon this way 😢
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last edited by@mikael I don't know dbm but I've read " A dbm database can only store strings, both as keys and values".
If it is still true, my keys are string but my values are images...
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last edited byCould you keep files on disk, and just store file name? That would keep your DB to small text, and images themselves probably change rarely
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last edited by@JonB yes but in this cases, the number of files will stay 30.000, isn't it?
Folders names are authors names
Files names are books names
Files are covers png
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last edited by@JonB you are right, the images never change. The only modification in the dB or files tree is to add an author/book/cover. I'm not sure that this info could help to find the right way but so you have all infos
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last edited by@cvp, yeah. I guess you could encode/decode the images, but would have to experiment what kind of control you have on the number of files.
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last edited byIf you place the 10000 folders underneath a folder called .DB or something, I wonder if that still causes slowness. I'm thinking I have git repos with hundreds of commits resulting in thousands of files stored in . git, and don't necessarily have massive slowdown in creating or moving files, but I'm not sure.
Could maybe have heirarchys to keep single folders small -- for instance git deals with tons of commits/blobs/trees, each which is its own folder based on the hash. But top level folders are first 2 letters of the hash, thus making it fast to lookup a particular hash -- top folder has < 256 subfolders, etc.
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last edited by@JonB You are right (as usual 🙄), all my 10.000 folders are under a folder that I prefixed with a dot, and creating or moving a file has retrieved its normal speed.
Thus, thanks a lot. I'll keep my 30.000 files without a dB...
I'll have to modify some scripts to access these sub-folders or files because the upper folder is not visible.Although, I still think that iOS backup should not be so designed, by file...But, ok, it is not vital.
A last time (for today), thanks for your time.
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last edited by cvpUnforeseen consequence: uploads via SFTP to my backup server ADrive.com does not work anymore from sub_folder of hidden folder 😢 (error 2 "no such file").
Exactly same process to my iMac (where standard SFTP server runs) works successfully.
Edit: ADrive server seems to have (temporary, I hope) problems. The same error occurs actually even for an upload from a visible folder.
Just when I test my modification...😢and😅
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last edited byFolder rename (drop/add the leading dot) before and after sftp operations might be a workaround.
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last edited by@ccc Yes sir but I still hope it is a temporary problem. Wait and see
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last edited byProblem disappeared today, it was thus a server problem...occurred at a bad moment 😅
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last edited by ccc@spammer Thanks for the info, I didn't know but as I said, I've used the solution adviced by @JonB
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last edited by@cvp, unfortunately that post was a spam (copy of an earlier post in this thread).
Would be nice to maybe have an area where posting would be limited to ”members only”, i.e. having gone through some kind of a challenge that could be only responded to from within Pythonista.
And of course another area where people would not have to be similarly verified and could ask ”should I buy Pythonista for xyz” questions.
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last edited by@mikael Thanks, shame on me
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last edited by@omz, @ccc, any idea whether the forum software would support such a challenge/”secondary password” to get a posting access?
On Pythonista end we would need nothing new. E.g. challenge is ”ui.Tableview”, response is the result of:
hash(''.join(dir(objc_util.ObjCInstance(ui.TableView()))))... that is, something that an average forum spambot certainly cannot perform.
