Backups show on new admin sidebar when they are "disabled"

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A bug is reported where the Backups menu appears in the new admin sidebar even when enable_backups is set to false, leading to a 404 error when accessed mentalstring. The issue stems from the menu being displayed regardless of the setting, which is confusing since the setting appears to only control manual backups, not automatic ones. The user suggests the menu should be conditional on enable_backups and that the /admin/backups section should still allow access to existing backups. Additionally, Moin notes that some admin settings, like custom moderation flags, are inaccessible without the new admin sidebar, highlighting a broader usability concern.

I’m currently experimenting with 3.3 on a staging machine and when I activated the new admin sidebar, I got this menu:

But, accessing Backups leads to:

This being a staging server, we had set enable_backups to false at some point, hence why we bumped into this bug. Setting it to true makes this work as expected. I suppose that menu entry may need to be conditional on that setting.

Having said that, the description for enable_backups currently is

Allow administrators to create backups of the forum

however, if it is set to false but automatic_backups_enabled is enabled, periodic backups continue to run (as I just found out..). So maybe enable_backups is about creating backups manually only?

In such case, perhaps /admin/backups section should always show to access any backups already done, and the “Backup” button in that page following the enable_backups setting.

PS: Shouldn’t the all admin settings be reachable even without the new admin sidebar? The custom moderation flags seem to not be anywhere under the usual settings (did I miss it?).

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I wasn’t able to find it without the admin sidebar either.

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