sysadmin-backup

Console backup application. Intended mainly for server administration.

Features

• Configuration is YAML based
• Full logging capabilities with multiple handlers available
• Backup methods: tar and rsync
• Lock process so backup can execute after an existing backup finishes
• Auto-mount external device and open for encryption if encrypted
• Mysql and postgres dump

Installation

Download and extract:

wget https://github.com/Wtower/sysadmin-backup2/archive/v2.0.0-beta.tar.gz
tar xvzf v2.0.0-beta.tar.gz
cd sysadmin-backup2-2.0.0-beta

Install python packages. You can use virtualenv (recommended) or system-wide (example on Ubuntu):

sudo apt install python3-pip
sudo -H pip3 install -U pip setuptools
sudo -H pip3 install -U -r requirements.txt

Usage

Make sure to use python3:

(sysadmin-backup2) gkarak@neil ~/w/p/sysadmin-backup2 (dev)> ./sysadmin-backup.py -h
usage: sysadmin-backup.py [-h] [-v] [--version] conf_file

sysadmin-backup

positional arguments:
  conf_file   Configuration file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -v          Verbosity level
  --version   show program's version number and exit

For the configuration parameters see conf/sample.conf.yml.

Cron entries sample:

PATH='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'

# m h  dom mon dow   command
0 5 * * * /root/sysadmin-backup2-2.0.0-beta/sysadmin-backup.py /etc/sysadmin-backup2/internal.conf.yml > /dev/null
5 10-14/1 * * 1-5 /root/sysadmin-backup2-2.0.0-beta/sysadmin-backup.py /etc/sysadmin-backup2/external.conf.yml > /dev/null

Version note

This is the Version 2 in Python 3. For Version 1.20 in C++ see sysadmin-backup v1.