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109 lines
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# rbackup - An rsync-based backup tool
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Yet another rsync-based tool for automating backups and using plugins.
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## Rationales
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- \'Keep It Simple Stupid\'
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- Automate as much of the process as possible. This includes options,
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path selections, and managing snapshots
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- Store backups in a format that does not require a program or script;
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this means that backups can be browsed with a file manager
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- Deleted files are kept in old snapshots and rotated out using the
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rotation script
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- Subsequent backups do not touch each other, unless specified by the
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user. This reduces the risk of overwriting backups with corrupted
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files
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## Features
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- Snapshot-based backup management
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- Creation of installed package lists and archives of package manager
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databases
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- AppArmor profiles
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### Advanced Features
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- rbackup depends on the filesystem that stores the repository to
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provide features such as checksumming, deduplication, and data
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integrity verification
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- Encryption must be handled by an external program, this is out of
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scope for rbackup
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- xattrs and acl\'s are handled by rsync but must be a supported
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feature of the filesystem the repository is stored on
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## Target Directories
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- /boot/loader
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- /etc
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- /home
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- /root
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- /var
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- /var/lib
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- /var/log
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- Plugins
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- Installed packages
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- Package manager databases
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## Backup Directory Hierarchy
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Repository
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current -> data/snapshot2
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data
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snapshot1
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.metadata
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snapshot2
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.metadata
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.metadata
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Assuming snapshot2 was the most recent backup and snapshot1 was the
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backup before that:
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> - \"current\" would link to snapshot2
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> - Unchanged files files from snapshot1 backed up to snapshot2 are
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> hardlinked to snapshot1
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## Implementation Notes
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- pathlib is used for path handling
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- When hardlinking, rbackup passes the entire path to avoid needing
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relative paths
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- The backup script changes the process umask to 0000
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## To-do
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- Create a separate backup and network backup script
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- Think about using `python-daemon` for `backupd`
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- rbackup.script: add `do_remote_backup` function
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- Add \_\_enter\_\_ and \_\_exit\_\_ for PackageManager lockfiles to
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prevent transactions during backup
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- Create snapshot manipulation script
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- Interactive cleanup script
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- Repository.\_\_delitem\_\_()
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- Reconfiguring Repository.snapshot_symlink whenever a snapshot is
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deleted
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- Plugin API
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- Plugin.run() and Plugin.communicate() abstract methods
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- Plugin.run() is passed a set of specific arguments
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- snapshot?
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- \--dry-run touches the repository, change to make sure it doesn\'t
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## Dependencies
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### Runtime
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- python\>=3.7
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- rsync
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### Build/Testing
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- pytest
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- setuptools
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- hypothesis
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#### License
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This project is licensed under MIT. See LICENSE for more details.
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