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The Atavism plugin was born of a desire to have a quick way of creating point in time backups. Instead of backing up the entire install, this is gear towards backing up just your specific folders.
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Atavism Backup

Atavism Backup

Target Folder

Target folder is a folder path outside of your Unity project, do not choose a folder inside your projects path. This should be a backup drive or external location to store these files. All backups will be created in this folder.

Package Name

The name of the backup package, will be used in all naming conventions.

Script Files

These are individual scripts that you want to add to the backup system. An example would be a file somewhere in the Atavism structure. Since we don’t want to back up this entire structure this allows you to cherry pick scripts from the folder structure.

Folder Objects

This is for entire folder structures and it will export everything within that folder structure.

Individual Objects

These are individual  files that you want to add to the backup system. An example would be a file somewhere in the Atavism structure. Since we don’t want to back up this entire structure this allows you to cherry pick files from the folder structure.

Create Parent Folder

Do you want the backup system to generate a new folder with the package name in your export folder structure.

Backup Databases

Do you want to allow the system to backup your Atavism Databases. This is to allow just database backups to occur.

Backup Files

Do you want to allow the system to backup your Atavism Files selected above. This is to allow just file backups to occur.

Date Time String

This is a custom string you can adjust to change the output display of the date time inside the backup file to suit your needs.

MySQL SSL Mode

Do we want to enable SQL SSL mode in the backups? The default is disabled.

Restore Databases

These selections (when enabled) will allow you to select which database files you want to restore.