Aio web-ui: disable daily backups / updates on saturdays

This is how my web-ui in AIO looks like for Daily backup and automatic update:

disable backup / status of backup

The 04:00 pre-filled value (?) can be selected and deleted. The 04:00 then becomes grey and can’t be selected anymore:

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If I know press Submit backup time I get an error message saying The daily backup time must not be empty!.

How do I know the status of the daily backup? Is it enabled for 04:00 since I can select the 04:00 and delete it? If it is enabled how do I disable the automatic backup at 04:00? If it is not enabled, how am I able to tell apart having a backup enabled at 04:00 and having automatic backups disabled?

automatic update

Automatically update all containers, the mastercontainer and on saturdays your Nextcloud apps is checked.

If I uncheck the option and reload the tab in firefox the option is checked again.

I can’t find any submit to send the unchecking of that option.

How do I change it?

Automatic updates are disabled as long as you do not submit a time. 4:00 is just a pre-filled value but it is not submitted.

This will be improved with aio-interface: daily-bakup: remove the pre-filled value by szaimen · Pull Request #6278 · nextcloud/all-in-one · GitHub in the next release

I think I clicked once with the pre-filled value when I tried to disable Automatically update all containers, the mastercontainer and on saturdays your Nextcloud apps and the checkmark returned on each reload of the page.

The 04:00 value in the field is selectable and I can delete it to then see a greyed out default value.

Where (in the filesystem, a container or the db) do I have to look to make sure that the automatic backup is disabled?

Thanks - that is great!

But the phrasing in the description By entering a time below, you can enable daily backups. isn’t followed by any information on how to disable the backups if they had been enabled before.

There will be a different button to disable the daily backup once you submitted a value

I’ll make this more explicit with aio-interface: describe that the submit button needs to be pressed in a few places by szaimen · Pull Request #6279 · nextcloud/all-in-one · GitHub

Just to illustrate this in case someone reads this topic:

Thanks for the explanation!

imho the button Submit backup time is mislabeled: the label should reflect the fact that the button does not only submit the backup time, but also the settings of the checkmarks below. I’m not a gui guy - my proposal would be Submit backup settings.

Also: the description above the Disable or change daily backups button should not only show what is enabled and for when, it should also show what had been disabled:

Daily backup and automatic updates

Daily backups will be created at 04:00 UTC. A notification about the result of the backup will be/not be sent.
Also your containers, the mastercontainer and, on Saturdays, your Nextcloud apps will/will not be automatically updated.

  • this makes clear what features would be available, but had not been enabled
  • furthermore if there’ll be new features due to some update the new default setting will be shown here

Thanks for the idea! aio-interface: improve description of daily-backup buttons by szaimen · Pull Request #6280 · nextcloud/all-in-one · GitHub

Thanks for putting all the time and work in AIO!

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All things I mentioned above are now released with v10.12.0 Beta. Testing and feedback is welcome! See GitHub - nextcloud/all-in-one: 📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.

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