CTRL-Z - A Django backup and recovery tool

CTRL-Z (control-zee) is a backup and recovery tool for Django projects.

Its goals are to be operating system agnostic in creating and restoring backups, while being flexible through a yaml configuration file.

Note

Warning: currently only PostgreSQL is supported

Contents

• 1   Features
• 2   Installation and usage

1   Features

• Supports Linux, Windows, MacOS

• Django project inspection:

  • backs up configured databases using settings.DATABASES
  • backs up file directories such as settings.MEDIA_ROOT (configurable)

• stdlib logging based reporting + e-mailing of backup/restore report

• YAML-based, minimal configuration

• Simple Python/CLI APIs for backup creation and restoration

2   Installation and usage

See the documentation.