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Abingdon Backup Script

ABuS is a script for backing up (and restoring) your files to a local disk.

The backups are encrypted, compressed, and deduplicated.

It is assumed that another program (e.g. rsync) is used to make off-site copies of the backups.

Missing Features

• Documentation

• Deletion of old backups

• Reconstruction of index database from backup meta data

• “Flattening” of restores

• Restore target directory other than “.”

Installation

1. Install Python 3.6 from python.org

   • include pip

   • it helps to add python to path

2. From command line, “as administrator” if python has been installed “for all users”:

   c:\path\to\python36\scripts\pip install abus-0.tar.gz

3. Create minimal config file, e.g.:

   logfile c:/my/home/abus.log
   archive e:/backups
   password password1234 just kidding!
   [include]
   c:/my/home

4. Create the archive dir referenced in the config file and create and empty index database with

   c:\path\to\python36\scripts\abus.exe -f c:/my/home/abus.cfg --init

5. Add to Task Scheduler:

   c:\path\to\python36\scripts\abus.exe -f c:/my/home/abus.cfg --backup

   If there are any problems that prevent abus from getting as far as opening the log file (and Windows permissions can cause many such problems), then use cmd.exe to allow redirection:

   cmd /c c:\path\to\python36\scripts\abus.exe -f c:/my/home/abus.cfg --backup >c:\abus.err 2>&1

History

v2 (alpha) 2017-10-07

• not excruciatingly slow any more

v1 (alpha) 2017-10-04

• first version