Loci is a python script that can backup a directory to a server using rsync - It keeps track of the backups that have been done. Multiple backups may be kept. Rsync is used to handle the backups so only the needfull is copied and single files can be recovered from the backup if needed. loci -b tag : Backup under the tag given (I used days of the week)
loci -l : List backups showing those tags unused, backups that are needed, and backups that been run more than 5 times. I refresh these.
loci -r tag : Refresh a tag’s backup - delete the files under that tag and backuplog entries to prepare for a fresh backup using loci -b
~/.backuplog a file in .csv format that keeps track of backups done.
~/.config/loci/settings Settings file. Fully commented.
Multiple backups may be kept.
Nice work, but if I may suggest - it lacks hardlink support, so’s quite wasteful in terms of disk space - the number of ‘tags’ (snapshots) will be extremely limited.
At least two robust solutions that use rsync+hardlinks already exist: rsnapshot.org and dirvish.org (both written in perl). There’s definitely room for backup tools that produce plain copies, instead of packed chunk data like restic and Duplicacy, and a python or even bash-based tool might be nice, so keep at it.
However, I liken backup software to encryption - extreme care must be taken when rolling and using your own. Whatever tool you use, test test test the backups. :)
A hilariously unnecessary Python script that could have easily been done in bash since it’s literally just a wrapper around rsync. 😅
When you’ve only got a Python-sized hammer in your toolbox, everything looks like a Python nail, I guess.
It’s also to help me learn python. And it works for me. : ^ )
Bash does seem like a better fit for this kind of script since it is a lot more portable.
I.e.: It comes by default for many Linux distributions. For windows, a Git bash install will get you most utilities needed for large reliable scripts (grep, scp, find, sort, uniq, cat, tr, ls, etc.).
With that said, you should write it on whatever language you want, especially if it is for learning purposes, that’s where the fun comes from :)
lol, you’re braver than me. No one ever sees the “code” I’ve written.
That’s ok Like any landing you can walk away from. Any code that runs to spec is good, much could be better.
Don’t mind him. Any time someone shares code, there’s always someone else who did nothing talking about how much better your code could have been. Just noise from the peanut gallery.
Yeah, no problem… I started out with just bare rsync - but I did the backup infrequently and needed my notes to know the command. Then I wrote a simple shell script to run the rsync for me. Then I decided I needed more than one backup, redundancy is good. Then I wanted to keep track of the backups so I had it write to .backuplog then that file started getting dated (every time I run a “sun” backup the record of the previous one is useless) so Finally TaDa! loci is born.
No need to be a dick
Do you wanna share a bash script, then?
Can you please articulate why Python and Bash are so different in your eyes?
One needs to be
compiledinstalled and the other is literally the de facto scripting language installed everywhere and intended for exactly this purpose.
