Backuper

Simple idempotent console app for creating backups.

Backuper downloads a file from a configured "target" and then uploads it to a configured "location". Downloading is done via "Downloaders" and uploading via "Uploaders".

Currently, there is only one downloader and one uploader:

• FtpFileDownloader: downloads a specified file from a secured FTP server
• AzureStorageBlobUploader: uploads a file as a backup to specified Azure Storage Blob container

Configuration is made in backup-config.json.

Backuper supports maintaining a number of backups in any Uploader, see the Keep parameter. Downloaded files are renamed to a format containing a backup date and time. Backuper works idempotently and automatically removes old backups.

Backuper uses NLog to automatically log its progress to files. Fatal errors are emailed. See NLog.config.

Configuration

See Backuper.Console/backuper-config.json

// ----------------------------------------
// Configuration file for Backuper.
// ----------------------------------------
{
  // List of backup "targets" e.g. what should saved as a backup
  "Targets": [
    {
      // ID of target, this should be a string with characters
      // supported as a file name or as an Azure Storage Blob
      "ID": "MyFile",

      // Human readable target, only for logging purposes
      "Name": "My project SQLite database",

      // Human readable description of the target, only for logging and orientation purposes
      "Description": "Database of MyProject",

      // Type of the target. Only FtpFile is supported right now.
      "Type": "FtpFile",

      // Type of the backup location e.g. where is the backup target going to be saved.
      "Location": {

        // ID of the backup location (see below)
        "ID": "AzureStorageBlob",

        // How many backup files should be kept
        "Keep": 5
      },

      // FTP configuration (will be changed to "TargetConfiguration" in future)
      "SourceConfiguration": {

        // FTP server URL
        "Url": "ftp://myproject.net",

        // FTP UserName
        "UserName": "ftp-username",

        // FTP Password
        "Password": "ftp-password",

        // Full path of the file
        "FullPath": "/MyProjectSQLite.db"
      }
    }
  ],

  // Where should we backup. Configurations for possible backup destinations.
  // Structure of this configuration will change in future.
  "Locations": [

    // Azure Storage Blob
    {
      // ID of backup destination
      "ID": "AzureStorageBlob",

      // Human readable description for orientation
      "Description": "My azure storage account",

      // Azure Storage connection configuration
      "Configuration": {

        // Account name
        "AccountName": "azureaccountname",

        // Account key
        "AccountKey": "azureaccountkey",

        // Azure Blob storage container name
        "ContainerName": "containername"
      }
    }
  ]
}