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--- personal:portfolio:rsync-python-script [2014/07/26 20:20]
antonello created
+++ personal:portfolio:rsync-python-script [2024/02/12 10:23] (current)
antonello Updated to Python3 (just print function). Tested working in Ubuntu 22.04
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 ====== Rsync Python script ======
-A Python script to wrap rsync to have rolling backups for the latest n days, deleting the old ones. Nice because in this approach rsync uses hard links to build incremental backups that appear as full backups.
+A Python script that wraps rsync to have rolling backups for the latest n days, deleting the old ones. Nice because in this approach rsync uses hard links to build incremental backups that appear as full backups.
+Of course it needs to be run under cron.
 Fur the actual rsync call that is used in this script see [[http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups_2010.html]]
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   maxbkps_d = 0
-  print "** INFO: Starting rsync backup of "+basedir+" to "+bkpsdir+" - "+str(now.year)+"."+str(now.month)+"."+str(now.day)+" "+str(now.hour)+":"+str(now.minute)
+  print("** INFO: Starting rsync backup of "+basedir+" to "+bkpsdir+" - "+str(now.year)+"."+str(now.month)+"."+str(now.day)+" "+str(now.hour)+":"+str(now.minute))
   # If a complete backup for today already exists I remove it as I can't create an incremental of itself..
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     if (parts[0] == bkpsbase):
       if len(parts) != 2:
-        print "**** ERROR: There is a problem with a directory starting with bkpsbase but not having the date elements.. ("+bkpdir+")"
+        print("**** ERROR: There is a problem with a directory starting with bkpsbase but not having the date elements.. ("+bkpdir+")")
       else:
         de = parts[1].split('-') # date elements
         if len(de) != 3:
-          print "**** ERROR: There is a problem with a directory having a subset of the date elements.. ("+bkpdir+")"
+          print("**** ERROR: There is a problem with a directory having a subset of the date elements.. ("+bkpdir+")")
         else:
           # removing old bkps
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   if (maxbkps_y == 0): # first backup
-    print "** INFO: Performing first backup of the serie.."
+    print("** INFO: Performing first backup of the serie..")
     bkpcommand2 = "rsync --archive --one-file-system --hard-links "
     bkpcommand2 += "--human-readable --inplace --numeric-ids --delete "
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   os.system(bkpcommand3)
-  print "** INFO: rsync backup completed - "+str(now.year)+"."+str(now.month)+"."+str(now.day)+" "+str(now.hour)+":"+str(now.minute)
+  print("** INFO: rsync backup completed - "+str(now.year)+"."+str(now.month)+"."+str(now.day)+" "+str(now.hour)+":"+str(now.minute))
+~~DISCUSSION~~