Quickly back-up our Linux workstations using date-named archives.
Greetings 'Pythoneers!
I wanted to share a handy little script that I created to help us back-up / archive our files. The ability to tally, archive, as well as to save recently-changed files into incrementally-named backups on our desktop, are the key benefits.
Using your platform's native file recovery format is also seldom a bad idea! ;-)
Designed to run wherever the find and tar commands are installed (Linux, Cygwin, MacOS, etc,) I hope you will find this code useful, as well as instructive. --I've even a 3D print for TF cards on keychains.
p.s. I've kept tarback.py for educational reasons - it works fine, but the latest version is tarback2.py.
- Add YOUR key folders (pun intended) to Options.
locations. - Define your default key in Options.
option. - Change Options.
DEFAULT_FOLDERto YOUR backup location. - (optional) Add to
cronso as to run automatically?
Since 2023/07/13 dynamic option [re]configuration, online backup reporting, as well as an oh-so-cool backup 'gap-days' set of 'ops are also presently possible. Use tarback2.py --help to check-out the new options.
I've more features to add (tarback3?) as time permits...
-- Rn
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Decades ago - when I was writing for BYTE Magazine - a fellow author mused that the reason WHY wee geeks have such cool tools is because we actually USE what we CREATE?
In that spirit I hope you'll enjoy the new DEFAULT_ALL feature. Presently implemented as a 'key option' (yes, more puns :)
we can use that token whenever we want to 'Jedi' ('JUST DO IT') all.
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Boldly carry your backups where few 3D Designs dare go?