Backup

Warning

Backup is one of the reason why mature structures should switch to managed services, in order to ease the manual work and benefit from the long experience of the hyperscalers. As often the solution presented here should only be used by individuals/small SME/startups in their infancies.

The backup.md module of ecodev-core has only one backup method (an original name 😁).

backup

backup eats

• a pathlib Path backed_folder corresponding to a folder one wants to backup
• (Optional) a nb_saves int (default value 5) corresponding to the maximum number of backups to keep.

The backup method also uses some environment variables, meant to connect to a ftp server

• backup_username: the username to connect to the backup server
• backup_password: the password associated to backup_username
• backup_url: the backup server url address

backup will backup both backed_folder and the db on which the application running the backup is plugged (thanks to pg_dump .

It will connect to the backup server thanks to lftp.