Tuesday, September 6, 2011

I am back with the backup!


All I wanted was a very simple tool - I give it the list of directories I care about and run it daily with my USB hard drive attached and it quietly backs up only files/folders that have changed since the last time

Goal for the long weekend was to learn enough python to write myself a backup utility.The official backup utility I am supposed to use on my work laptop is not user friendly ( or maybe it is and I just haven't bothered to learn about it - who knows).

Mission Accomplished ( Though being very new to Python I am not really sure how ugly/inefficient this program looks to decent python programmers)  - Here is the code if you like to see/use ( Disclaimer: Use at your own risk)