adorsk / backup_helpers

Backup Helper Util

Summary

This is a set of scripts to help with creating local backups. Note that it does not save these backups to an external location. You must set that up yourself.

Setup

1. Clone repo.
2. Copy config_example.py to config.py.
3. Edit settings/backup specs in config.py.
4. Add to crontab to run periodically:
5. (on mac) EDITOR=vi crontab -e
6. Add a line like this: 37 2 * * * /bin/bash -l -c '/<path>/<to>/<this>/<dir>/make_backups.py' > /tmp/backups.log . This will run the backups script every day at 02:37.
7. Confirm that your crontab was changed by running crontab -l. You should see the line you added in the output.
8. Copy your ~/backups folder to an external location.
9. Periodically check your backups, to make sure they are capturing what you want.