Hi Ioan, if you plan to use db:create-backup or db:restore, you'll have to rely on the built-in functionality: backups will always be placed in the database directory of BaseX, so there's no way to choose a custom destination.
What you could do instead: * Access a backup file from the database directory (which can be retrieved via db:system) and copy/move the file to another place in a second step * Use db:export, archive:create, or zip:zip-file to manually copy or zip all files from a database. You will need to use XQuery locking options [1] to ensure that no other process changes the currently accessed databases. Hope this helps, Christian [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Transactions#XQuery_Locking_Options > I would ask you to give me an opinion on what would be the simplest > solution, when pressing a button in a web page that triggers the function > "db:create-backup" of BaseX, to have the possibility of saving the resulting > file in a location chosen by the user, including the name generated from the > concatenation of timestamp. Possibly with the option to not be saved in the > default location. > > And also the reverse way: restore a database from a backup file (zip), > showing the path to it, with the file upload. > > Thanks for any ideas, > Ioan > >
