msbackup 1.2.3

Generic backup utility.

The msbackup utility performs data archiving. The main use for this is the daily execution of the utility by system scheduler (cron for example).

Usage

For reliable archiving of various data have the appropriate backend:

• file - archive folder by the tar with compression format bzip2.
• subversion - scans the folder repositories of version control system Apache Subversion and archives each repository by the tar with compression format bzip2 on dump of hot copy of each repository.
• mercurial - scans the folder repositories of version control system Mercurial and executes the command tar with compression format bzip2 on clone of each repository.

When you start utility with the –rotated parameter, from the backup folder will deleted all expired archives on the basis of configuration.

Archive files can be encrypted with the –encryptor gpg parameter.

Testing

Tests can be launched by the command:

python -m unittest discover

Using Python version 3.0 or higher, tests can be run using:

python -m unittest

Test reports and coverage report can be generate using:

./test.sh

After the successful execution of the script folder test-reports will contain a report (in XML format) of the tests, and in the folder coverage will be a report (in HTML format) of the code coverage.