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@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.
