Thanks for all the pointers!

Good news: It’s now possible to add comments to database backups [1,2].

Feedback is welcome.
Christian

[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/2084
[2] https://files.basex.org/releases/latest/




On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 6:40 PM Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g)
<sdm7g@virginia.edu> wrote:
>
> It’s in ZipFile.getComment()
>
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/zip/ZipFile.html#getComment--
>
> — Steve M.
>
> On Mar 30, 2022, at 12:17 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm wondering if zip's `setComment` might be useful here.
>
>
> Interesting hint.
>
> I have discovered the ZipOutputStream.setComment function. There
> doesn’t seem to be an equivalent ZipInputStream.getComment function,
> though. Maybe I overlooked something?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 1:44 PM Christian Grün
> <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Currently, it’s not possible to attach comments to backups. I’ll have
> some more thoughts on your feature request. Maybe we could add an info
> file in the zipped archive and partially unzip it when listing
> available backups.
>
> All the best,
> Christian
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:26 AM Jonathan Robie
> <jonathan.robie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have been making backups before doing particularly complex things to  my treebanks, and I find myself writing down information about what stage of processing a given backup corresponds to.
>
> "after replacing subtrees for missing compounds"
>
> I wish I could associate these strings with backups in BaseX so I can more easily know which one I would restore if something went wrong.
>
> Jonathan
>
>