Butterfly Backup enhancement : text file for the '--custom-data' command ?

[didier33170]

Butterfly Backup enhancement : text file for the '--custom-data' command ?

[MatteoGuadrini]

Hi @didier33170,
thanks so much for your suggestion!
This feature is a nice idea. The way I conceived it, it can be implemented in two different ways:

• making the argument accept --custom-data as well as path also files (and then treat the files as you indicated)
• making a new argument like --file-path and accepting a single file as an argument and processing it (in case the paths inside it are invalid, skip with warning).

Personally I prefer the second choice, given that the unique value of the argument does not allow for errors.
What do you think, could it go?

[didier33170]

Hello Matteo. Many thanks for the interest and proposals!
Yes, the second option would be easy to use, like '--file-path [File_list.txt]'. But both options could works. With the second, the risk of error is moved from the command line to the syntax of the .txt file.

[MatteoGuadrini]

Added --file-data argument on backup action into version 1.11.0