Bare (Backup Reminder) 🐻

A simple CLI tool that can be used as a backup reminder for your laptop backups.

This CLI does not perform any backup for you. It is just a CLI that can be used to check the last time a backup was done and remind you if a new backup is needed.

You can use one of the following tools to perform backups for instance:

• Back In Time (for your HOME folder for instance)
• Timeshift (for system backups)
• Restic (combined with Autorestic)

Installation

With pipx

pipx install backup-reminder

Usage

Initialization

After installing, run bare init to generate the configuration file.

This generates a configuration file named last-backup.yaml in your HOME directory.

You can change the backup_interval value (how many days between two backups) in the configuration file following your needs. By default the value is 5 (backup every 5 days).

Check if a backup is needed

Simply run bare check to know if a new backup is needed. A system notification is displayed if a new backup is needed.

If a backup is needed, perform your backup and then run bare commit to commit your backup.

Perform check on login

You can for instance make your session manager run bare check after login. By doing it this way, a check is performed on every login and you get notified if a new backup is needed.

XFCE, GNOME and KDE

Simply create a file in the path ~/.config/autostart/backup-reminder.desktop with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.9.4
Type=Application
Name=Backup Reminder
Comment=Checks if a backup is needed
Exec=<path-to-the-bare-cli> check
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;GNOME;KDE;
RunHook=0
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

Update <path-to-the-bare-cli> following your configuration.

Contributing

Run the following commands to install the dependencies:

npm install && poetry install

Tests can be run with make test and codebase can be formatted by running make format.

Have look at the Makefile for details.

Attribution

The logo is the result of the transformation of the following original image designed by: Christie L. Ward, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons