This project is not actively maintained. The last commit (other than the commit adding this message) was on 1 March, 2014. The source code and PyPI packages are still available, but I strongly recommend against using this for new projects.

django-icybackup

Back up your databases and media directory to a local file/directory or Amazon Glacier. Works with PostgreSQL, MySQL and sqlite.

A fork of (a fork of) django-backup which adds:

• Multiple database support
• Optionally save your backups to Amazon Glacier
• Less assumptions about presence of a Bourne-like shell and GNU tools
• Less tarballception (no more redundant tarballs inside tarballs)
• Postgres-specific improvements:
  • Uses the custom archive type for pg_dump, for maximum flexibility at restore time, so there's no need to worry about having to hand-edit or craft cryptic regexes for a many-thousand-line SQL file when restoring just because the wrong command line flags were used when making the backup.
  • Doesn't pass PostgreSQL database password via command line argument, as doing so can reveal your database password to other users on the same machine.

Warning to MySQL Users: This script may expose your MySQL database password to other users on the same machine, as it is passed in via a command line argument. Pull requests to fix this problem are welcome.

Installation

Run pip install django-icybackup, then add icybackup to your INSTALLED_APPS.

Usage

Backing up

• manage.py backup -o backup.tgz - back up to backup.tgz
• manage.py backup -d backups - back up to backups/[CURRENT_DATETIME].tgz
• manage.py backup -g arn:was:glacier:us-east-1:2584098540980:vaults/my-website-backups - backup to the my-website-backups Amazon Glacier vault, given by it's ARN
• manage.py backup --stdout - back up to stdout

Supports the following optional flags:

• -e extra_file - Add an extra file or directory to the backup (can be specified multiple times)

Restoring

• manage.py restore -i backup.tgz - restore from backup.tgz
• manage.py restore --stdin - restore from stdin

Optional flags:

• --pg-restore-flags - flags to pass to the pg_restore process (default is Oxc). If the database you're restoring into exists and is empty, use --pg-restore-flags=Ox.

Tip: If you want to move servers, or copy your production database/media exactly to development or staging, it is possible to do something like this:

ssh other-server 'cd path/to/app && manage.py backup --stdout' | manage.py restore --stdin

settings.py settings

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - Optional, but required for Amazon Glacier upload to work.
• PG_DUMP_BIN, PG_RESTORE_BIN, MYSQLDUMP_BIN, MYSQL_BIN - Optional. Set these to the full paths to the pg_dump and pg_restore, mysqldump and mysql binaries. If not set, icybackup will try to find them on the search path. (Note that cron jobs often run with a much smaller search path, so it's a good idea to set these if you're backing up using cron.)

To do

• Backup directory cleanup command
• Tests
• remove password from mysqldump process name
• Restore command
• Commands to reconcile and prune Glacier backups

Contributors

The following people contributed code to this project or its ancestors, in chronological order by first commit:

• Dmitriy Kovalev
• Ted Tieken
• Chris Cohoat
• Jamie Matthews
• Yar Kravtsov
• Adam Brenecki, St Barnabas' Theological College

License

Copyright © 2012, St Barnabas' Theological College
Copyright © 2011, Ted Tieken
Copyright © 2011, http://code.google.com/p/django-backup/
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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