linuxluigi / success-backup-check

Backup tool witch sends email when something goes wrong

Succes-Backup-Check

Move user files on a server from a place where the user has write rights & move it to an archive or backup folder, where to user has no read or write access.

A use case example: Daily backup of a point-of-sale database. So that every point-of-sale device has only the current database in the storage. The 2 server check in the operation when was the last backup & send an email if the current database on the server is to old.

Online Documentation

http://success-backup-check.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Quickstart

Install

Requirements

• https://www.smartmontools.org for hardware tests

Debian / Ubuntu::

$ sudo apt-get install smartmontools python3-pip git

Mac - Brew::

$ brew install smartmontools

Install

Install it from online resource directly.

$ sudo python3 -m pip install git+git://github.com/linuxluigi/success-backup-check.git

Or download the archive from git & install it from there.

$ git clone [e-mail]:linuxluigi/success-backup-check.git
$ cd success-backup-check
$ python setup.py install --user

Usage

To run the program run:

$ success-backup-check

Or an example in crontab. (change your Python version)

$ python3 /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/success_backup_check/__main__.py

Config Example

Quick Example, for detail instruction read the documentation. http://success-backup-check.readthedocs.io/en/latest/config.html

File: /etc/success_backup_check.conf

[Mail]
From = [e-mail]
To = [e-mail]
ApiKey = YourSendGridApiKey

[Time]
days = 3

[Server]
ArchivDir = /srv/backup/daily_backup/
mode = active
file_typ = MDB

[BackupDirs]
MyDatabaseDir = /home/user/daily-db
UserWork = /home/user/done/work

[Logging]
log_level = WARNING
log_file = /var/log/succes_backup_check.log