Create an "after" directive in gitpod.yml

[richardfrankza]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

When the workspace goes to sleep, data may be lost. For example, bash history or a database. I'd like to be able to preserve this information and restore it on start up.

Describe the behaviour you'd like

We have before and init and command but I would like the ability to run a script as the workspace is closing down. For instance making a database snapshot to the workspace directory.

Describe alternatives you've considered

A cron job running every 3 minutes perhaps?

[axonasif]

Duplicate of #3966

[axonasif]

When the workspace goes to sleep, data may be lost. For example, bash history or a database. I'd like to be able to preserve this information and restore it on start up.

We have an Epic for shell histories specifically: #9019
For the meantime, if you're interested, take a look at here: https://github.com/axonasif/dotfiles, persisting shell histories is already possible with dotifles feature of gitpod, just not straightforward enough.

or a database

If you keep it under /workspace dir, your database will persist.