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Contributing
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Things to remember when submitting pull requests
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* Simplicity and reliability are preferred over pure features
* If a feature can be handled by either rsync or the filesystem, then it is out of scope of the project.
Code Formatting
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* Formatting: black
* Linter: flake8

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rbackup - An rsync-based backup tool
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A tool that automates the use of rsync and extra features for package manager backups.
Yet another rsync-based tool for automating backups and using plugins.
Rationales
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* 'Keep It Simple Stupid'
* Automate as much of the process as possible. This includes options, path selections, and managing snapshots
* Store backups in a format that does not require a program or script; this means that backups can be browsed with a file manager
* Deleted files are kept in old snapshots and rotated out using the rotation script
* Subsequent backups do not touch each other, unless specified by the user. This reduces the risk of overwriting backups with corrupted files
Features
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* Snapshot-based backup management
* Backups of deleted and modified files
* Creation of installed package lists and backup of package manager databases
* Creation of installed package lists and archives of package manager databases
* AppArmor profiles
Advanced Features
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* /home
* /root
* /var
* /var/lib
* /var/log
* Extras
* Plugins
* Installed packages
* Package manager databases
Backup Directory Hierarchy
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basedir
::
├── current
Repository
current -> data/snapshot2
data
snapshot1
.metadata
snapshot2
.metadata
.metadata
└── data
Assuming snapshot2 was the most recent backup and snapshot1 was the backup before that:
├── snapshot-one
│   ├── boot
│   ├── etc
│   ├── home
│   ├── pkg
│   └── root
└── snapshot-two
├── boot
├── etc
├── home
├── pkg
└── root
* Assuming snapshot2 was the previous backup and snapshot1 was the backup before that:
* current would link to snapshot2
* "current" would link to snapshot2
* Unchanged files files from snapshot1 backed up to snapshot2 are hardlinked to snapshot1
Implementation Notes
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* pathlib is used for path handling
* Only absolute paths are used internally for consistency
* Use --link-dest=
* Absolute paths are used internally for consistency
* When hardlinking, rbackup passes the entire path to avoid needing relative paths
* The backup script changes the process umask to 0000 to determine the file modes for the files it writes i.e. snapshots
* The backup script changes the process umask to 0000
To-do
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* Add override for umask i.e. add the command-line options -u, --umask or an option in the config file
* Add __enter__ and __exit__ for PackageManager lockfiles to prevent transactions during backup
* Create snapshot manipulation script
* Interactive cleanup script
* Repository.__delitem__()
* Repository.delete_snapshot(name)
* Reconfiguring Repository.snapshot_symlink whenever a snapshot is deleted
Dependencies
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Runtime
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* python >=3.7
* python>=3.7
* rsync
Build/Testing