gutsul / gcloud-backup

Python tool that creates backups of disk in Google Cloud.

GCloudBackup

Settings to start development

1. Install the Google Cloud SDK, initialize it and run core gcloud commands from the command-line on your development systems. Perform the following steps:

# Create an environment variable for the correct distribution
export CLOUD_SDK_REPO="cloud-sdk-$(lsb_release -c -s)"

# Add the Cloud SDK distribution URI as a package source
echo "deb http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt $CLOUD_SDK_REPO main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list

# Import the Google Cloud Platform public key
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

# Update the package list and install the Cloud SDK
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk

2. Provide your credentials to the tool with the command:

gcloud auth application-default login 

Result:

Credentials saved to file: [/home/ygrigortsevich/.config/gcloud/application_default_credentials.json]

Requirements

• Python 3
• sqlite

sudo apt-get install sqlite
sudo pip3 install --upgrade prettytable
sudo pip3 install --upgrade google-api-python-client

Usage

1. Add disk to backup list

2. Configure backup

3. Add job to crontab