Automatic backup generation

[GuiSousa135]

Describe your suggested feature

Option to automatically generate a backup file in a selected folder.

Other details

It could be according to time (each day or week) or according to some modification made (if I subscribe to a new channel or create a playlist).

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[Bnyro]

Ref #3144.

Why that would he useful is missing in your issue description? What's the issue with quickly doing a backup once ecery week or so manually?

[Gravity2106]

I find It very useful too as it is extremely frequent to have problems with one instance. In those cases I just share the video with Tubular as I cannot change the instance without logging out and losing the playlists.
Having an always updated backup will improve the experience while the instances remain failing.

[4JX]

Chiming in to say that I'd also appreciate a feature like this for the reasons mentioned above. Having a readily available fallback of your data for any instance related issues would give a much greater peace of mind (while keeping the benefits of having one synced account 99% of the time).

Doing it manually is technically fine and all, but why do that when you can instead automate the process.

As opposed to the issue linked above though I'd prefer to not be stuck with the destructive "replace the current file" option, and instead have a buffer of X previous backups. As for manually created ones, those should probably be treated as special cases and not touched at all by the automatic part.

[PhrozenByte]

Since you explicitly mentioned subscriptions and playlists, I presume that your issue is about loosing access to these when switching to another authenticated Piped instance, right?

Then a backup isn't really what you want: A backup would also restore the authenticated Piped instance that was used at the time of backup creation. Furthermore, app backups are hard to use, hard to understand for less experienced users (and close to unusable if not integrated into the GUI, what requires a lot of development work) and backups just do something different.

I guess you rather look for something like #5195

[navy676aw]

This feature would have been amazing for when i managed to corrupt the database. No way to export after that or the app insta-crashes. I lost a couple weeks of play history and saved playlists. This is definitely a quality of life feature, its just nice to not have to think about it.

[GuiSousa135]

Name example for automatic backup file: "LibreTube_YYYYMMDD_hhmm"

[GuiSousa135]

Examples of apps with this function:
Fossify Contacts, AntennaPod and OpenScale