backy

README

Baccky: Never Remember About Backups Again

Project Overview

• Create Temporary Configuration: Easily create, modify, and revert configurations with one command, ideal for container/cloud usage.
• Version Monitoring: Track different versions of your backup files and receive email notifications about updates.
• Dotfile Control Center: Centralize your dotfiles, automate their deployment, and install packages based on configurations.
• Selective Dotfile Copying: Copy only the dotfiles for programs installed on your system, or install everything from scratch.
• Centralized Backup Log: Maintain a device-based backup log.
• Tripwire Feature: Verify file integrity and perform regular checks.
• Future Plans: Implement user profiles.

Current Functionality

Backup

It adds the paths "fiels and folders" to the database for the daemon that will backup them daily

The backups are located in the $HOME/.user_log/backups/

Don't worry about adding duplicates

backup <filename direcroyName>

-a Creates the archive based on the specified files and outputs them into the current directory

backy backup -a <files and directories>

-b Backs up the given targets in a $HOME/.user_log/backups/ with the schema. Soon there will be a revert option for this.

backy backup -b <files and directories>

deamon

It's starts the deamon that checks the .backy.yaml in the homedir for the corne_time variable the default is set to cron_time: "@daily" but u can change it as u please in the config

backy backup deamon 

It's highly recomeded to add this to the startup commands so it will do regular backups

Dotfiles

Recognize the repository or path to your dotfiles and copy all the executables.

backy dot -p <path to the dotfiles or the GitHub URL>

This command copies configurations to the specified location, tracking them for easy reversion. Existing configurations are moved and backed up to $HOME/.user_log/back_conf/. To revert to a previous configuration by date, use:

backy dot revert

Add -d to remove the chosen backed-up configuration.

Tripwire

Add

Scan the specified repository, compute checksums, and store data about directories and files in a database. Paths are stored in $HOME/.user_log/scan_paths.json.

backy trip add -p <path>

Scan

Scan repositories specified in $HOME/.user_log/scan_paths.json and generate a CSV report detailing changes and new files.

backy trip scan

Use the -c flag to specify the CSV name. By default, it is named trip_scan.csv.

Config file

For now the app looks for the .backy.yaml in two palaces

• Home directory
• .config

#Default configuration

#Email is for pushing notyfications(still developed)
email_creds:
  email: your_email@example.com
  passw: your_password
# This is the varaible for the chron daemon
cron_time: "@daily"
## This is the defualt value for the dotfiles 
config_path: ".config"