The suite of backup, restore and sync tools that I use to back up and sync all of our home systems is now officially a v1.0.0. The repository is here https://github.com/jpfxgood/bkp and the package is in pypy as bkp-sync so you can just do python3 -m pip install bkp-sync. The scripts will get installed on your ~/.local/bin…

The transition from the original code base to this one was a massive change, I converted to Python 3, restructured the project to be a standard Python project format, wrote pytest automation for all of the modules and the command line scripts.

I just converted my main system over to using the packaged version in “production.”

In the process of doing this I cleaned up the code a lot, the original had lots of globals and module level state which made the modules sorta useless as an API. I fixed all that, encapsulating everything into classes so now the modules form a very powerful API for moving files between file systems, sftp sites, and Amazon s3. In the process the command line tools gained new capabilities that they didn’t have before, “sync” for example was never intended to work with s3 and now it does, so you could set up a sync between a local folder or folders and an s3 bucket and changes would just get automatically pushed and pulled.

The backup api creates versioned sets of changed files which is very cool as a concept to build other things besides backup software. The controls over what gets backed up are very flexible and powerful.

The whole process went faster start to finish than the editor project partly because it was a smaller codebase with less “features” but also because I had already climbed the learning curve of the tools and such.

So, I think I’ll get https://github.com/jpfxgood/slides-sound converted to Python 3 but without the rigorous testing since I really don’t use those tools for anything but experimenting. The https://github.com/jpfxgood/my_radio project is probably dead, it wouldn’t be worth converting it to Python 3 so I’ll just leave that there as an archive.