https://github.com/johnowhitaker/autobackup

Automatically create backups of a directory
https://github.com/johnowhitaker/autobackup

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Automatically create backups of a directory

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/johnowhitaker/autobackup
• Owner: johnowhitaker
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2024-11-15T19:10:38.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-11-15T20:12:55.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-15T20:16:30.100Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Jupyter Notebook
• Homepage: https://johnowhitaker.github.io/autobackup
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# autobackup

## Usage

### Installation

Install latest from the GitHub

[repository](https://github.com/johnowhitaker/autobackup):

``` sh

$ pip install git+https://github.com/johnowhitaker/autobackup.git

```

or from [pypi](https://pypi.org/project/autobackup/)

``` sh

$ pip install autobackup

```

## How to use

`autobackup src dest` will make a copy of `src` (which can be a file or

a directory) inside `dir` in a folder with the current date+time, and

clean up any old backups based on the following rules:

- The most recent 5 backups are kept

- For each number of days in `--max_ages` (default is “2,14,60”) the

  oldest one below that age is kept.

This ensures that you have a few recent backups, one up to 2 days old,

one up to 2 weeks old and one up to 2 months old.

To run this script hourly,

1.  Create a service file (e.g. `/etc/systemd/system/backup.service`):

    [Unit]

    Description=Hourly Backup Service

    [Service]

    ExecStart=autobackup /path/to/src /path/to/dest

    [Install]

    WantedBy=multi-user.target

2.  Create a timer file (e.g. `/etc/systemd/system/backup.timer`):

    [Unit]

    Description=Run Backup Service Hourly

    [Timer]

    OnCalendar=hourly

    [Install]

    WantedBy=timers.target

3.  Enable and start the timer:

    sudo systemctl enable backup.timer

    sudo systemctl start backup.timer