Limit of backups per day

[Rob Cannon]

It look like I can only use the API to create a backup once every six hours.

I want to create a script that will

1) create a backup
2) download it
3) apply an update script to the database
4) create another backup
5) download that backup to a different name


That way I have the original database, and the one from after the conversion. But I cannot do that with this limitation. Is there a way to change that to so many backups in a 24 hour period?

Thanks,
Rob Cannon

[mjp]

Rob, afraid not. We had to limit the frequency to maintain the integrity of the system. If we allow each user to download every few minutes, there will be some users who do just that: download their databases every few minutes, all day, every day. As you can imagine, that would quickly result in a terminal bottleneck and no one's backups would work.

I get what you're trying to do, and that's a reasonable reason to do subsequent downloads of essentially the same data. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to maintain our buffer and provide that to you.