backup_to_harddrive

This script can typically be trigger when you want to backup files from your home folder to one or more backup path (e.g harddrives.)

Installation

• On Ubuntu 22: pip install backup_to_harddrive
• On Ubuntu 24: pipx install backup_to_harddrive

Targeted platform

Features included

• Exclude folders by list
• CLI switch on and off function (useful if you want to quickly reboot the computer without triggering a long backup)
• CLI retrieval of last date of backup
• Creation of quick restore shell script. This is useful to quickly restore part of a backup (for instance, only document, or music etc.) on another machine.

Configuration file

Create a config file in ~/.config/backup_to_harddrive/config.yaml. Follow this example

backup_configurations:
  my_backup:
    source: /home/foo
    list_of_harddrive:
      - /media/foo/hd1
      - /media/foo/hd2
    list_of_excluded_folders:
     - .cache
     - /home/foo/excluded
  backup_two:
    source: /home/bar
    list_of_harddrive:
      - /mnt/bar
    list_of_excluded_folders:
     - .config
     - .cache

Use cases

See USECASES.md

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md