[Feature request] Backup from stdin about autorestic HOT 8 CLOSED

As this feature is not really relevant anymore and adds significant implementation I will close this. feel free to reopen if necessary

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At the risk of hijacking the discussion here, I'd like to ask if you're currently using your own tool, savior, in conjunction with autorestic?

@bthj no I've completely dropped it, I've been using https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic#before--after-hooks (dump in a before hook, remove the dump in the after hook, backup the dump) as a workaround until we can pipe backups directly to stdin.

I will do some testing this WE (hopefully I don't forget xD)
might be a bit tricky piping it through node and then to restic, but we'll see.

@cupcakearmy yeah, wy first attempts at this (back in december) got stuck at this point unfortunately: piping stdin to a subprocess launched by node.

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Same with mongodump, might be usefull yes. Altouhgh at least with mongo it's not seen as the reccomended way to go about it.

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@EliotBerriot , your backup journey article took me here and I'm subscribing to this issue :)

At the risk of hijacking the discussion here, I'd like to ask if you're currently using your own tool, savior, in conjunction with autorestic?

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I will do some testing this WE (hopefully I don't forget xD)
might be a bit tricky piping it through node and then to restic, but we'll see.

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I'd prefer to have this reopened.

I'm essentially forced to implement my backup solution without autorestic because dumping a large database to disk inbetween is simply prohibitive :-/

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@berlincount A similar tool 'resticprofile' supports backing up from STDIN. I actually have a different problem with it regarding hooks that is not supported and hoped autorestic would fix this situation.

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Many thanks to @agateblue for raising that.

I personally agree with @berlincount: using the hooks script will create an intermediary file which will increase disk space and decrease security.

Has someone encountered a solution or even a valid alternative?

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