dothebackup 0.1

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

Type plugins

rsync

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

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.