Backup

Being a programmer, I hate to create backups in a drag-and-drop way. Frequently switching Macs and between Fedora and Xubuntu made creating backups and recovery a pain, especially when i wanted only very specific files/directories to be backed up. Backup is a programmatic way to create and recover backups from location A to location B and back. Locations can be host volumes or external volumes and can be completely controlled by the config backupOptions.json file.

Usage

Run help:

$: python backupCreator.py --help

Creating a backup

Run as sudo for most cases, and pass --create or -c:

$: sudo python backupCreator.py --create
# or
$: sudo python backupCreator.py -c

Recovering from the same backup device

Run as sudo for most cases, and pass --recover or -r:

$: sudo python backupCreator.py --recover
# or
$: sudo python backupCreator.py -r

Configuration options

• add: (List) A list of all dirs and files that need to be backed up
• ignore: (List) A list of all dirs and files that need to be ignored for backup.
• storage: The backup storage volume (eg. and external HDD)
  • destination: The path where this volume is mounted
  • dir: A directory on the recovery volume inside which you want the backup to be stored
  • overwrite_existing: Set this to true if you want any existing backups on the backup volume to be wiped out and overwritten
  • cleanup_copied: Set this to true if you want the files to be removed from your host once the backup copy is complete
• recover: Recover options config
  • destination: Base volume where you want the backup to be recovered. Generally your host.
  • owner: When restored, which user do you want to be the owner (username)? (If you made the backup as root, you might want to get them back to your username upon recovery)
  • group: When restored, which group do you want to be the owner (group name)? (If you made the backup as root, you might want to get them back to the old group upon recovery)

Screenshots

Here is some sneak peek :)

Backup Creation

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Backup Recovery

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Minimum compatibility

• Python 2.6+