Tarsnap Status Monitor Reporting Tool

Tarsnap Status Monitor

Introduction

The most excellent backup service Tarsnap provides a clean and functional interface for managing one's account. This tool connects to that web interface and queries data, producing a report as a table or JSON. The current balance is read, and an estimated monthly cost is calculated based on the site's daily cost data.

Example Output

Here's an example of output from the author's tarsnap account:

(tsmtool) mkrueger@beaker:~/src/tsmtool$ tsmtool --json rstms
{
  "balance": 32.51,
  "account": "mkrueger@rstms.net",
  "monthly_cost": 23.51
}

Configuration

A config file may be used for account data, or the email account / password may be passed as command line options. The config file is a whitespace delimited text file with one line per account. Each line has these fields:

~/.tsmtool:

ACCOUNT_NAME    EMAIL_ADDRESS   PASSWORD

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://tsmtool.readthedocs.io.

Credits

Tarsnap

This package was created with Cookiecutter and rstms/cookiecutter-python-cli, a fork of the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

audreyr/cookiecutter audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage rstms/cookiecutter-python-cli