Make Cloudron Restore dialog more Human friendly

[robi]

Here's an easy one.. inspired by https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/10690/what-is-a-minio-backup-path/

It would be really helpful if the Backup Path textbox, which is dynamic relative to the last backup date and box version, had a hint of the expected format to enter there.

Otherwise it's really hard to guess what Cloudron is expecting, even if you have all the backup details written down from setting it up!
It's not human friendly at all

In my case for an encrypted backup this was:
2024-02-20-130007-637/box_v7.4.3.tar.gz.enc

It would be even more amazing if Cloudron could just find this on its own from the snapshot hints or latest date and not have to ask at all.

Thanks

[girish]

Am with you, we haven't found a better approach yet.

• The simple way is to of course upload a config file from a backup of the previous installation. In that case, you don't even notice this field
• The harder way is to fill up that form by yourself.

We had a plan to maybe query the backend and provide a selector of backups available remotely. This requires some coding. Is there any easy fix which does not involved coding?

[girish]

I noticed the placeholder text for that input box is just Backup Path . This can atleast be easily changed.

I have also added a '?' link to https://docs.cloudron.io/backups/#restore-cloudron now (which am fixing to explain backup path/id better).

[robi]

@girish said in Make Cloudron Restore dialog more Human friendly:

Is there any easy fix which does not involved coding?

Yes, have the pattern available in the textbox so it's obvious what is expected.

It's more the "backup date/box ver file" than just a "path".