Backuprotation

A minimalistic python tool which allows you to easily rotate your backups, whether they are a directory or files.

Installation

backuprotation is available through pip

pip install backuprotation

Usage

To rotate your backups which are stored in ./path simply run

backuprotation ./path

and backuprotation will look through ./path and keep the last ten directories while deleting the rest.

You can specify the amount of backups to keep with -n or --number

backuprotation -n 20 ./path

By default backuprotation looks for directories but it can also rotate files or both files and directories

backuprotation -f ./path        # files
backuprotation -fd ./path       # files and directories

If you're ever unsure of what effects backuprotation will have you can perform a dry-run to verify.

backuprotation --dry-run ./path

This will print out the changes that backuprotation would perform without actually changing the filesystem.