userbackup

simple backup utility for home computing users

License: Freely Distributable, Freeware, GNU General Public License (GPL) (GNU General Public License version 2)

Tags easy, simple, backup, utility, archive, archiving, home, user, part, file, shell

Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Environment
- Console
Intended Audience
- End Users/Desktop
- System Administrators
License
Natural Language
- English
Operating System
- OS Independent
Programming Language
- Python
Topic
- System :: Archiving :: Backup

Project description

This module builds several archive files according to user specifications. 2 kinds of archives: - tar.gz against a given files list - shell specified archive

Intended audience is home computing users which have to manage several physical supports (floppy disks, writable CD-ROM or writable DVD) and/or which have to split their saved data into several archives according to the semantic they give to each part. In short, neither ‘tar czf user.tgz find /home/user -type f’ nor incremental backups are well suited for home users because of the size of the archive or the relative complexity of the process.

Archiving specifications are provided through a configuration file which follows the Python syntax. The configuration file can be used to define Python code that must be executed before the backup.