No support for simply uploading a backup through the web ui?

[philkunz]

I have a backup of an app on my local disk. Is it correct that I can't simply upload the backup?

[ccfu]

Yes, you have to upload it to the server's file system first.

[girish]

You have to scp to server and import it via Filesystem provider - https://docs.cloudron.io/backups/#import-app-backup .

[philkunz]

Ok got it. Is there a particular reason, why a simple upload through the webui is not supported?

[jdaviescoates]

@philkunz said in No support for simply uploading a backup through the web ui?:

Ok got it. Is there a particular reason, why a simple upload through the webui is not supported?

Good question. If I'm not mistaken I think this has come up before, and I think there is even a feature request post about it somewhere...

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates said in No support for simply uploading a backup through the web ui?:

@philkunz said in No support for simply uploading a backup through the web ui?:

Ok got it. Is there a particular reason, why a simple upload through the webui is not supported?

Good question. If I'm not mistaken I think this has come up before, and I think there is even a feature request post about it somewhere...

Yep, here it is:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/8359/ability-to-import-backups-from-computer-disk-rather-than-needing-to-scp-files

[girish]

@philkunz said in No support for simply uploading a backup through the web ui?:

Ok got it. Is there a particular reason, why a simple upload through the webui is not supported?

In some ways, this can be considered a security issue. If we had some bug in Cloudron code, then one can import/delete your existing data in the app. This is also why we don't allow deleting backups via the web ui.

But (atleast I) have come around to this a bit. Maybe this can be considered a usability issue. We just need to figure out some safety hatch when user uploading a backup (maybe require 2fa, reenter password etc).