I'm wondering if zip's `setComment` might be useful here.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 1:44 PM Christian Grün
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Currently, it’s not possible to attach comments to backups. I’ll have
> some more thoughts on your feature request. Maybe we could add an info
> file in the zipped archive and partially unzip it when listing
> available backups.
>
> All the best,
> Christian
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:26 AM Jonathan Robie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I have been making backups before doing particularly complex things to  my 
> > treebanks, and I find myself writing down information about what stage of 
> > processing a given backup corresponds to.
> >
> > "after replacing subtrees for missing compounds"
> >
> > I wish I could associate these strings with backups in BaseX so I can more 
> > easily know which one I would restore if something went wrong.
> >
> > Jonathan

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