The plan is not to restore straight from the data folder. I'm creating a script that:

1- Create a backup of all dbs

2- Rezip backups with AES256 encryption

3- Copies the encrypted backups to a remote location.

The double call works. The shell script didn't respond well to a redirect. I haven't tried the forward yet. I just thought there would be a way to do it in one operation. For this case, lag is not much of an issue because it's a shell and it's internal, but I've had similar cases in web applications with other functions, so I asked.

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 4:26 AM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I need to send 2 separate http requests or use a redirect?
> 1. Send request that creates backups
> 2. Send request that extracts the latest backup name from the list of all
> backups and returns it to me?

Exactly.

> I'm getting a lot of lag in my applications from having to perform so many
> calls or redirects to get anything from the server after an update.

If the redirection should really turn out to be a lag (I wouldn’t hope
so, because such a call should be really cheap), simply use
rest:forward instead of rest:redirect [1].

> Or maybe you have a better approach to propose?

Maybe you don’t really need the exact name of the backup, because
db:restore can be called without timestamp [2].

Best,
Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ#rest:forward
[2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Module#db:restore

France Baril
Architecte documentaire / Documentation architect
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