backasa 0.9.5

Quickstart

This will initiate or sync an existing backup of all picasa web albumns for this user, into /target/of/backup

backasa -e your@gmail.com -p password1 -t /target/of/backup/ backup

Full Cycle

1. Setup - Setup backup directory and store your credentials

   mkdir backup-target
   cd backup-target
   backasa setup

2. Backup - routinely run the backup (cron, etc..)

   cd backup-target
   backasa backup

3. Cleanup - Remove old versions of files and deleted files

   cd backup-target
   backasa cleanup

Options

• --email or -e

  • Manually provide account email on the command line

• --password or -p

  • Manually provide password on the command line

• --limit or -l

  • Provide a time limit (in hours) to run.

  • Accepts floating points (-l 0.5 for 30 minutes, etc..)

  • This is helpful if you want to gradually catch up your backups during off peak times

  • Ex. Cron job starts at 1 AM, using -l 4 it will stop ~ 5 AM

  • backasa will pick up where it left off for the next run

• --target or -t

  • Specify the target backup directory

  • Defaults to the current working directory

• --notify or -n

  • Send an email to the account upon completion or failure

  • includes job log

• --help or -h

  • Built in help documentation