dothebackup 0.1.1

backup tool with plugins

A small tool to run backups in different ways. Its pluggable.

Install

pip install dothebackup

Usage

Usage: dothebackup [OPTIONS] CONFIGFILE

  Commandline interface.

Options:
  --test     Only prints the created commands that would be used.
  --version  Show the version and exit.
  --help     Show this message and exit.

Config example

# destination where the logs will be
log_dir: /var/log/DoTheBackup

# define your backups here
backup:
    my_documents:
        type: rsync
        # "month" means that it will save the backup in daily directories
        # for example: "/media/backup/documents/07"
        mode: month
        enabled: true
        source: /home/user/documents
        destination: /media/backup/documents
        # rsync --exclude patterns here
        exclude:
            - foo
            - bar
        # rsync --include patterns here
        include:
            - very_important_dir

    video:
        type: rsync
        # "once" backups straight in the destination directory
        # for example: "/media/backup/Videos"
        mode: once
        enabled: true
        source: /home/user/Media/Videos
        destination: /media/backup/Videos

    important_stuff:
        type: rsync
        mode: month
        enabled: true
        source: /home/user/very_important
        # this will use ssh to transfer the data over ssh
        destinaton: user@remote:/media/backup/important_stuff

    dothebackup:
        type: git
        enabled: true
        source: https://github.com/xsteadfastx/DoTheBackup.git
        destination: /media/backup/repos/dothebackup

Type plugins

git

A simple git repo cloner. If the destination is not a cloned repo it will first perfom a git clone and then a git pull everytime dothebackup is running.

Keys

• source

• destination

rsync

It uses rsync to make backups. Be sure you have rsync installed.

Keys

• source

• destination

Modes

• once: Copies one to one.

• week: Keeps one week. It stores the files in a numbered day directory and uses hardlinks to link to the files that are not changed from the day before.

• month: Keeps one month. it stores the files for one month in a day numbered directory and works with hardlinks just like the week mode.