AutoArchive 2.0.5

Utility to help create backups more easily. The idea of the program is that all essential information for creating a backup is in a single file. It can use ‘tar’ for creating archives, has a command line interface, and supports incremental backups.

Tags backup compression archiving
License GNU GPLv3
State stable

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Recent Releases

2.0.520 Feb 2023 12:52 minor bugfix: This release improves building and installation process.
2.0.427 Sep 2022 16:33 minor bugfix: This release contains fix of incorrect handling of archives with inaccessible path and other small fixes.
2.0.314 Sep 2022 17:11 minor bugfix: This release improves compatibility with future Python versions.
2.0.119 Jan 2022 16:27 minor bugfix: This version fixes incompatibility with Python 3.10.
2.0.003 Sep 2021 11:37 major feature: AutoArchive 2 has been released with many improvements over version 1. Most notably: possibility to keep old backups which would otherwise be overwritten, running custom commands before and after backup creation or support of zstd compression format. Release of new major version also means the end of support for the previous one. So version 1 (which last release is 1.0.4) is no longer supported.
1.4.123 Sep 2017 06:06 minor feature: This release contains possibility to reference external archive specification files plus other small improvements and fixes.
1.0.423 Sep 2017 06:04 minor bugfix: This release of stable AutoArchive contains fixes for propagating messages from 'tar' in localized environments, correct handling of disk space exhaustion and more.
1.4.023 Sep 2017 06:04 minor bugfix: This release of stable AutoArchive contains fixes for propagating messages from 'tar' in localized environments, correct handling of disk space exhaustion and more.
1.3.009 Nov 2016 12:19 minor feature: This release improves usability in low free backup space conditions, adds options to execute custom commands before and after creation of all selected archives, plus contains other small improvements and bug fixes.
1.2.105 Dec 2015 19:15 minor bugfix: This minor release improves support for PyPI hosting and 'pip' -- now it is possible to install AutoArchive in Python virtual environments simply by 'pip install autoarchive'. Plus there is an improvement in the backup creation which prevents incomplete backups to be left around.
1.0.305 Dec 2015 19:14 minor bugfix: These minor releases improves support for PyPI hosting and 'pip' -- now it is possible to install AutoArchive in Python virtual environments simply by 'pip install autoarchive'. Plus there is an improvement in the backup creation which prevents incomplete backups to be left around.
1.2.019 Jan 2015 19:40 minor feature: In this new version of AutoArchive you can define arbitrary commands which will be executed before each backup creation and after it. This brings more automation and flexibility. Is allows you, for example to mount/unmount backup storage, stop/start databases and so on. So no more helper scrips, AutoArchive can handle it now.
1.1.118 Sep 2014 20:22 minor bugfix: This release fixes an exception which might have occurred when backup restarting was switched to enabled for an existing archive.