Mikes Backup

A simple python script utilizing rsync for both full and differential backups, and auto folder naming, over SSH

Honestly this is more of a wrapper around rsync's beautiful functionality. It simply makes daily backups slightly easier by:

Automatically choosing a full or differential backup type, based on whether it detects an existing full backup folder
Automatically generate a folder based on today's date and time, so you can generate a great many differential backup folders without manually changing anything

Requirements

--full Forces the script to run a full backup
--differential Forces the script to run an incremental backup
--log-dir <directory> Let's you set the log output directory
--source-dir <directory> Specifies the local source directory
--remote-host <hostname> Specifies the remote host, to send the backups to over ssh
--remote-user <username> Specifies the remote username to use, when connecting to the remote host
--remote-dir <directory> Specifies the remote backup destination directory
--ssh-key <path to key> Specifies the local ssh key to use for authentication

I realize these docs are sparse at best, so please send in questions if you have any, and I will try to update this file or create a Wiki if need be