Python Backup2Mail online tool

Application to send email with data from other applications (folders). You can set everything in settings and run it with schedule in cron.

Dependencies

• Bash (on Linux)
• Python

Tested on

• Python 3.5.2 @ Windows 10
• Python 2.7.9 @ Debian Jessie

Configuration

Copy file config/settings.ini.py to config/settings.py and edit to fit your settings:

# Email recipient
EMAIL_TO = 'user@example.com'

# Subject topic eg. Machine name
SUBJECT_TOPIC = 'Server'

# SMTP server
SMTP_SERV = 'smtp.gmail.com'
SMTP_PORT = 587
SMTP_USER = 'user@gmail.com'
SMTP_PSWD = 'super_secret_password'

• EMAIL_TO is recipient email,
• SUBJECT_TOPIC is prefix of subject, eg. [Server] Backup,
• SMTP_(...) are settings of SMTP server like address, port, user and password.

Copy file config/folders.ini.json to config/folders.json and edit to fir your backup folders:

{
  "1": {
    "folder": "/var/log",
    "archive": "system_logs"
  },
  "2": {
    "folder": "/boot",
    "archive": "boot"
  }
}

• folder points to full folder path and will be packed recursively with subfolders,
  • eg Linux path: /home/user/application/logs,
  • eg Windows path: C:\\Users\\user\\application\\logs,
• archive is a prefix name of ZIP archive, whole filename is prefix_date_time.zip.

Schedule

On Linux powered machine add scheduler using crontab -e by adding at the end of file:

0 1 * * 0 /home/user/Backup/cron.sh

which means to do backup every sunday at 1.00 AM.

By the way you can still just use ./apps/Main.py to execute Backup2Mail.

TODO

• BAT script to execute on Windows (same as cron.sh)

Author

Paweł Cierzniakowski