Back up to multiple destinations in the same profile

[strmd]

It would be very nice to be able to be able to manage profiles more directly. Here are some ideas:

• Import/export - repo-specific, single file (obviously shouldn't contain passphrase or such).
• Ability to duplicate profiles - for applying the same profile to multiple targets, e.g. two offsite drives.
• Templates (possibly) - save profile as template, create profile from template. Repo-agnostic. Perhaps expand default settings to a default template to be used as starting point for novice users, i.e. 'back up home folder except [on macOS: .Trashes, **/.DS_Store] with these sensible prune options', or onboarding offer to install a few example templates.

[m3nu]

Import/export would be easy since every profile is just a row in sqlite.

Instead of duplication, I'd suggest to have backups to multiple repos in a single profile. Borgmatic does it like this. Of course it would need to fail gracefully if the destination isn't available.

Personally I have 2 HDs for onsite backups (using the same source folders and exclusions). I find myself changing the repo and then running the backup again. It sounds like your use-case is the same.

[strmd]

Instead of duplication, I'd suggest to have backups to multiple repos in a single profile.

That might work just as well, yes. The profile as a starting point is common across other software and might be easier to grasp (I'm thinking of Vorta as a way to get people with no CLI experience to adopt Borg) but doing it in the way that makes most sense from a Borg perspective might be more flexible. Multiple destinations in the same profile would open up some neat possibilities, i.e. back up to every available destination, local or remote.

Personally I have 2 HDs for onsite backups (using the same source folders and exclusions). I find myself changing the repo and then running the backup again. It sounds like your use-case is the same.
Indeed. I did make two profiles and named them accordingly, but all settings including the password are identical.

[m3nu]

Then let's start out with multiple repos in one profile. For implementation, the repo-dropdown could have checkboxes, like this:

[strmd]

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[mauromol]

Multiple destinations for the same profile would be very useful, indeed. I really hope you can add this feature to Vorta.

Just a little note: having the ability to "clone"/"duplicate" a profile would still be useful when you want to create a new profile similar to an existing one but with few changes, instead of recreating it from scratch.