Bad Amazon review on the C8 because user can't access the internals of backups

[aaiyar]

@jtp10181

Locking out of data, I would assume this is in relation to the hot topic of backups being encrypted and not able to be extracted or edited. This is a very big deal to a very select few people, and not a big deal to most everyone else. I am not aware of anything else that would fit into that statement.

This is exactly the situation in this case. The Amazon reviewer wished to selectively recover a subset of the backed up H2 database (user space drivers and apps). In their opinion, being told by @bravenel and @mike.maxwell that Hubitat only permitted the entire database to be restored locked them out of their data.

The thread in question begins with this post:

Lzf Format

I have another perfectly valid reason for wanting to access my backup files: I have some Drivers and Apps code that I need to extract. These backups are for a hub I no longer have access to so I can't just log in to extract the code. Yes I can import this backup into a 2nd hub to extract the data, but I don't have any spare hubs I can sacrifice for that purpose and I shouldn't have to do that... These backups are backups of my data, from a device I own. It seems very user hostile to me that we …

And here’s the Amazon review: