Humus 0.1.3

A simple S3 backup script

Humus is a tool to periodically backup chunks of data (e.g. database backups) to Amazon’s S3. Humus’ features include:

• CLI tool and Python library.

• Automatic file rotation

• Automatic date based file trimming.

Why another S3 backup tool?

Most of the backup tools out there were either foucused on backing up entire directories of files or didn’t provide the rotation/trim tools I was looking for.

Installation & Use

1. Run pip install humus.

2. Create a config file like the following at ./humus.ini, ~/humus.ini, /etc/humus.ini, or /etc/humus/humus.ini:

   [AWS]
   access_key=< YOUR AWS ACCESS KEY >
   secret_key=< YOUR AWS SECRET KEY >
   bucket=some-bucket-name
   
   # Everything after this point is optional
   path=bacups
   
   [humus]
   # The number of files to exist in the S3 directory before getting trimmed
   count_limit=2
   # The age in days where files should be trimmed
   age_limit=2
   # The chunk size in bytes for data to be passed to bz2
   chunk_size=1024

3. Run the command humus my_filename target_file or output_cmd | humus my_filename whenever you want to make a new backup.