A simple S3 backup script
Project description
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
Run pip install humus.
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
Run the command humus my_filename target_file or output_cmd | humus my_filename whenever you want to make a new backup.
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