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Maybe I'm misinterpreting the output from their backup tool, but isn't that exactly what it's doing? Metrics for todoist-fullsync: name 1 days a

Maybe I'm misinterpreting the output from their backup tool, but isn't that exactly what it's doing? Metrics for todoist-fullsync: name 1 days ago 8 days ago ------------------------------ files 1 1 bytes 82363 86661 items 85 87 The "items" line there seems like it's actually parsing the file and counting the number of entries in it? It's also captured in point #2: "Can be intuitively evaluated as plausible or suspicious. If the number of tasks in my Todoist export dropped from dozens to 1, that would be cause for concern."

jaw 7y ago
Right. Aside from 'files' and 'bytes', the metrics are just the result of running shell commands specified in a config file. In this case it's `jq '.items | length' $PARCEL_PATH`, i.e., parse the file and print the length of the attribute named "items". Obviously, that won't catch all potential problems in the file, but it's a low-effort way to catch some.