To do list for db_backup.php
Please understand that this is more sort of a wishlist, then an official
announcement of upcoming features.
- Automated installation.
- Backup of static pages and files (HTML, PHP, images, etc.).
- Better checking and validation of configuration parameters.
- Better file handling routines.
- Browser based cron interface (anyone seen this somewhere done in PHP?).
- Browser based restore interface with date selection.
- Browser-based configuration interface.
- Check for minimal version requirements of PHP, MySQL-Client-Library and MySQL-Server.
- Estimation of storage requirements based on database size and current configuration.
- HTML Documentation.
- Optional ASCII file encryption of SQL-scripts (PGP, others?).
- Optional automation of database maintenance tasks (e.g. OPTIMIZE, CHECK, REPAIR, ANALYZE).
- Optional binary file encryption of backup archives (PGP, others?).
- Optional check for updates (client based, preserving privacy).
- Optional encryption when sending reports and backup-archives trough email (PGP, S/MIME).
- Optional secure file transfers using SSH (SFTP) instead of FTP.
- Rotation handling for logfiles on disk.
- Security improvements (e.g. htaccess-file generation).
- Self-Extracting php restore script and archives.
- Support webpages, mailing-list and forum.
- i18n (Internationalization, date/time-formats, multilingual)
Any other suggestions? Tell me!
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