dragos240 / pysync-backup

Python script for incremental backups using rsync

PySync-backup

What is it?

PySync-backup is a incremental backup solution written in Python using the rsync utility. It is meant to be used in cron, but can be run on its own if you like.

How does it work?

PySync-backup creates monthly, daily, and weekly folders in your destination path and backs your source directory (/ with exclusions by default) to each depending on when the last successful backup had been performed.

Dependencies

PySync-backup has one dependency which is pyyaml which allows it to read the YAML configuration file. Install it with:

pip3 install --user pyyaml

(Note: You are welcome to remove the --user flag, but by doing so, you install to your system directoriess, which is not reccomended.)

Configuration

PySync-backup can be configured by copying the config.default.yml file to one named config.yml. Please edit it to match your setup.

Running

It's easy to run PySync-backup. Just run the backup.py script with:

./backup.py

Or alternatively:

python3 backup.py