Save backup images after every download #698
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@KC9HI Thoughts on this? This might help with the "I hope you kept a pristine copy of your radio before you did something bad" problems right? Original idea from @goldstar611 a while back, but the recent rash of issues makes me think it's worth it. I could make chirp automatically prune anything more than 365 days old, or maybe as much as necessary to keep ithe backup directory under 100MB or something. |
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Okay, made it prune at 365 days, configurable by hidden setting in |
This makes us save a backup image of every radio we download from in the CHIRP profile directory, under backups/. This will help people who don't capture a first-time download image from their radio, as well as people who make some change that they end up not liking. Keep a year (by default) of backup images, which can be changed in the config file. Fixes #10694
Require GPLv3 license and check for violations.
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This is awesome. It won't help out if you download one then upload to many radios (one of my original hesitations on sending a patch earlier this year) but I think it will definitely help out in other cases like when manufacturers update the firmware years later without changing the radio ident for example. |
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Yeah, won't help if you have never downloaded a radio and upload to it blindly, but there's not much we can do about that. But, if you have two and have ever downloaded both, at least there's a hope of finding one of the original ones for the radio you want :) |
This makes us save a backup image of every radio we download from
in the CHIRP profile directory, under backups/. This will help people
who don't capture a first-time download image from their radio, as
well as people who make some change that they end up not liking.
We'll need to prune these somehow going forward, but that can be done
later.