Chewett Site Sync

This allows backing up of servers via FTP and rsync for filesystems and mysqldump for databases.

Currently Implemented

• Downloading of mysql databases via mysql dump
  • Daily/weekly/monthly backups supported
  • Archiving of backups with gzip compression
  • Whitelisting of tables to download via regular expressions
• FTP sync
  • Vaguely works
• rsync
  • Daily/weekly/monthly backups supported
  • Archiving of backups with gzip compression
  • Specify rsync flags

Todo

• All backup methods

  • Only store X backups per day/week/month
  • zipping instead of gzip
  • Specify storing X size of data backups and deleting after reaching X size
  • Standardize backup methods to reduce code footprint and duplication
  • Comment files
  • Print out correct progress for all functions
  • Move functions into functions rather than being a big long script

• Database features

  • Blacklisting of tables
  • Syncing over SSH
  • Database dump flags

• FTP syncing

  • Test full features
  • SFTP support
  • Syncing entire directories
  • Possibly rsync style copy via local cache?

• rsync

  • Specify all flags

Requirements

• python2
• python-mysql

Config file format

TODO