[Feat]: Wait until backup is finished in Schedules

[jiriks74]

Hi,
I've just started experimenting with Pelican and I've decided to make automatic backups of a Minecraft server.

So I've created a schedule:

1. /save-off on the server
2. Create backup
3. /save-on

The issue is that the schedule doesn't wait until the backup is finished so it turns auto-save back on immediately.

Could there be a switch or something that waits until the backup is finished and then executes the following tasks?

On the same note - could there be something like "delete oldest beckup, starting with..." so that the backups could be rotated automatically?

I'd like to keep eg. 3 daily backups without the need for manual intervention.

Thanks for consideration.

[QuintenQVD0]

That last one already happens, if you have set a limit of 3 backups and you make a 4th one the oldest not locked one will be deleted

[jiriks74]

Thanks! Didn't realize this, this makes it possible to have auto backups based on backup time estimation. Not great but good enough until a better solution exists.

[arvitus]

I'd really like to be able to wait for backups to finish, too. I have been waiting for this feature for a few years on pterodactyl and hope this can become a part of Pelican. Also, it should have the option to only continue if the backup was successful (or even do something if it was not successful but that might be already too much for the simple schedules).