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There must be a better way to make backups _and_ *restore* them

Wizardofozzie
Feb 13, 2016 - 07:36

I often switch between Pythonista Beta and 2.0 (or 1.5 as it were), and because my iPad is only 16Gb, I can't download both concurrently (though I'm pretty sure this isn't an option anyhow??))

There has to be a better way to:

  1. Make backups (as a zip for eg), and more importantly
  2. Restore said backups!

I used @omz PythonistaBackup to make a 300Mb zip file, Backup.zip. How do I:

  1. get this into Pythonista (beta)
  2. extract it
  3. (Preferably) avoid manually moving and copying the files from ~/Documents/Backup (or wherever the extracted zip files are)

.?

JonB
Feb 13, 2016 - 10:02

There are a ton of dropbox / ftp / webdav / ssh / gist / git solutions for transferring files back and forth. They all probably could use improvement, but pick your favorite, and make it better.

For extracting, stash works well.

[deleted]
Feb 13, 2016 - 16:52

@Wizardofozzie The Save Attachement extension will let you get your zip into the app and the ability to unzip is built in.