Comments on: Python backup/snapshot script with compression (BZ2, 7zip)

By: sulabh varshney

sulabh varshney — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:57:09 +0000

awesome!! thanx a ton for this wonderful script! I added this to my crontab and it worked like a charm!

By: Thanatos

Thanatos — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:09:05 +0000

I like this script. But I checked out the man page for 7z, and it states that 7z should not be used for backup of linux/unix systems because it does not store the owner/group of a file. It also gives a cryptic ‘Do not use -r. It does not do what you think it does.” Otherwise, great job. I am going to use a modified version of the tar backup function.

By: Jan-Philip Gehrcke

Jan-Philip Gehrcke — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:36:45 +0000

mhh.. copying the source does not work that good anymore, becaue most browsers introduce two newlines instead of one. Just leave me a comment if you want me to provide the source file.

By: Jan-Philip Gehrcke

Jan-Philip Gehrcke — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:51:46 +0000

Hey Tom,

it’s always good to have motivation and a distinct idea to learn programming. But GUI programming is one thing one should start after having proper knowledge of a specific programming language. Anyways, if you insist.. you should use PyQt as GUI module. Just search for it on the web. You’ll find tons of tutorials.

Have fun,

Jan-Philip

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:24:40 +0000

Hi,

Very good script, il like it.
I begin python programming and i would like add a GUI for this script.
Can you help me? Or can you give me ideas for do that?

Thanks a lot.

By: Mel

Mel — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:48:51 +0000

I really enjoy this little utility. Once I understood what -r meant, I was able to create a backup utility that ran only on one file. I simply dropped the -r and instead of “*” I put in my file name. This worked like a charm.

Thanks for the code!

By: Artem Harutyunyan

Artem Harutyunyan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:43:34 +0000

Hi Jan-Philip,

Check out dropbox (www.dropbox.com) for backups. It creates a directory (you can use it as an ‘additional destination’) under your filesystem which is automatically synchronized with their server (as well as with your other dropbox installations on other machines).

Cheers,
Artem.