[Enhancement]: General UI improvements / a few thoughts

[Morethanevil]

Current Behavior

First:
Right now the SSH-Key and the passphrase are shown in the configuration of the source. They should be hidden once they are added and only shown to the user when clicking a "show" button. I think this should have priority, since it is security related.

Second:

Please add a copy button to easily manage multiple database sources on the same host. On server 1 I configured PostgreSQL connection, but now I want MariaDB on the same host, I have to reenter all credentials again. Cloning the source would be handy here. The same applies for jobs and destinations. If I can clone a job, I can easily edit the second one with small changes.

Third:

The tab "security" has a misleading name. It stores more settings than encryption. Compression is not security related. Maybe naming it to something like "advanced" would do.

Fourth:

Retention is a great feature, but I can only select one of a few choices. I want to keep the backups of the last 3 days, but the minimum is 7 days. Maybe let the user decide how much days they want and it is now impossible to turn this feature off if not wanted. I could rotate backups by S3 bucket settings for example

Fifth:

Sometimes the UI is a little bit laggy, it needs an extra second to load. This occurs randomly on my Firefox. But I am not able to tell exactly why.

Proposed Improvement

See above :)

Motivation

More flexible configuration, improved security (if someone posts screenshots for troubleshooting the SSH-Key is not included :) )

Area

UI / Dashboard

Additional Context

See above

[Skyfay]

Hey @Morethanevil ,

Thanks for all your ideas.

1. Yes, I see that. From a security standpoint, this hasn't been handled well yet. I've actually been thinking about this for a while now, trying to figure out the best way to implement it. My goal is to set up a centralized secret management system where SSH and database credentials can be stored.
   You could then select those in Source. The problem is, it’s not that easy to implement. I’m not sure if it would work in Vault, and then there’s always the question of how much you should leave in Source, because it needs to remain customizable.

2. That's a good idea one I've actually thought of myself. It would be relatively simple for jobs, but a bit more complicated for sources, since you have to select a database type at the beginning. So you could only copy PostgreSQL and create a new PostgreSQL database from it, which probably doesn't make much sense.
   If you could choose a different database, that would probably make things difficult and time-consuming, because different databases have different fields.

3. Good idea, i never liked the name either. I'll think about it.

4. You can already completely change it as you like. If you want the last 3 days, just use GVS and set Daily to 3.

5. That will be hard to replicate. As far as I know, I never had that in the productive image. But I'll keep an eye on it and see if I can find anything.

[Skyfay]

I just wanted to let you know that I'm currently working on many of the points you mentioned and have already made good progress.

However, since I want to test everything very thoroughly before releasing it, it will take a little longer. I'm guessing next weekend or the weekend after.

[Morethanevil]

Take your time to make it awesome 👍🏻

No pressure 😌

[Skyfay]

Hey, i just released v2.0.0 which include your requests:

• Credential Profiles
• Adapter Cloning
• Renaming the Security tab