Feature REQUESTS

[admin]

First of all, thank you for the great work you are doing. I have purchased several Hasleo products and have been very satisfied with them.

Regarding the Merge Image feature, I think it should at least be optional whether the original image files are deleted or kept after a merge.
At the moment, merging automatically deletes the source images, which feels risky and somewhat contradictory for a backup application.

I understand the storage-saving rationale, but an option such as merge and keep source images vs. merge and delete source images would greatly improve safety and flexibility, without reducing the usefulness of the feature.

As we all know, dependencies exist among backup images. Incremental backups rely on the previous backup, while differential backups depend on the last full backup. Therefore, when merging images, HBS needs to modify subsequent images to maintain correct dependency relationships. Since the dependencies of the subsequent images have been modified, the images selected for merging become detached from the entire backup chain, and retaining them serves no purpose.

The deletion of image files is performed only after the merge operation is completed, making it a safe process. Since this operation is irreversible, we must ensure that image merging is carried out only when necessary.