System Administration Scripts

My utility scripts for common server/backup tasks powered by python 3.6!

Common Information

Logs are generated and saved to files based on the directory specified by the environment variable BACKUP_DIR (THIS MUST BE SET IN ORDER TO DO ANYTHING).

If you would like to run these on a scheduler like crontab, you will need to wrap the py scripts in a shell script like so.

#!/bin/bash
set -e

export BACKUP_DIR=<absolute back up directory>
export BACKUP_CONFIG=<absolute directory of settings.json file>
<absolute path to py script>

backup.py

A script for backing up files to another location local/remote.

The script requires that a user creates a settings.json file which looks like:

{
    "homeDirectory": "<a starting point, I recommend $HOME path>",
    "sourceDirectories": [
                            "directoryA",
                            "directoryB",
                            "ETC"
                        ],
  "backupDestination": "<some location you want to back up to>",
  "tempDirectories": [
                            "<Directories to delete files from>"
                    ]
}

Please note rsync is required (comes with most linux distros and mac).

For remote servers rsa key authentication will be required.

clean_temp_directories.py

A script for cleaning out marked directories.

The script requires the same settings.json file from above and uses the tempDirectories property to know which directories to target for clean up.