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authorChristophe Besson <cbesson@gmail.com>2026-10-10 16:15:48 +0200
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feat(android): send a manifest of what each backup run sent
Photos, videos and files record, per file, their path on the node, their path and album on the phone, dates, size and SHA-256, uploaded as meshbay-manifest/manifest-<date>.jsonl once the run is done. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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earlier copy, with `-modified-` and the date in its name; nothing is ever
replaced, and a file you delete on the phone stays in the group.
+Beside your photos and files, a `meshbay-manifest` folder holds a small file
+per backup run that records where each one came from on the phone (its
+album or folder, its original name and dates). It is what will let a restore
+put everything back where it was. Leave it in place.
+
If a backup cannot go on (the node's disk is full, the folder no longer accepts
files, somebody else joined the group), it stops, says why once in a
notification and on the Android Sync page, and tries again the next day.