Python UrBackup

Python UrBackup is a powerful Python wrapper designed to interact with UrBackup servers. This library allows you to manage backups, restore operations, and monitor the server status programmatically.

Originally urbackup-server-web-api-wrapper

Installation

Install with:

pip install python-urbackup

Usage

Initialization

Create an instance of the urbackup_server by specifying the server URL, username, and password. Replace 'your_server_url', 'your_username', and 'your_password' with your server details:

from urbackup import urbackup_server

server = urbackup_server('your_server_url', 'your_username', 'your_password')

Logging In

To perform any operations, you need to log in:

if server.login():
    print("Login successful!")
else:
    print("Login failed!")

Getting Client Status

Retrieve the status of a specific client:

client_status = server.get_client_status('client_name')
if client_status:
    print(f"Client status: {client_status}")
else:
    print("Client not found or access denied.")

Downloading an Installer

To download an installer for a new client, specify the file path and the client's name:

if server.download_installer('path/to/installer', 'new_client_name'):
    print("Installer downloaded successfully.")
else:
    print("Failed to download installer.")

Starting Backups

You can start different types of backups for a client. Here are examples of starting an incremental file backup and a full file backup:

if server.start_incr_file_backup('client_name'):
    print("Incremental file backup started successfully.")
else:
    print("Failed to start incremental file backup.")

if server.start_full_file_backup('client_name'):
    print("Full file backup started successfully.")
else:
    print("Failed to start full file backup.")

Managing Clients

Add a new client to the server:

new_client = server.add_client('new_client_name')
if new_client:
    print("New client added:", new_client)
else:
    print("Failed to add new client.")

List clients with no file backup in the last three days:

import urbackup
import time
import datetime
server = urbackup.urbackup_server("http://127.0.0.1:55414/x", "admin", "foo")
clients = server.get_status()
diff_time = 3*24*60*60 # 3 days
for client in clients:
    if client["lastbackup"]=="-" or client["lastbackup"] < time.time() - diff_time:

        if client["lastbackup"]=="-" or client["lastbackup"]==0:
            lastbackup = "Never"
        else:
            lastbackup = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(client["lastbackup"]).strftime("%x %X")

        print("Last file backup at {lastbackup} of client {clientname} is older than three days".format(
              lastbackup=lastbackup, clientname=client["name"] ) )

For more information, please refer to the API Reference.

UrBackup CLI

The UrBackup CLI is a command-line interface that allows you to interact with the UrBackup server from a client machine.

Important Note: For Windows the command-line tool is urbackupclient_cmd. Mac and Linux use urbackupclientctl.

CLI options for urbackupclientctl and urbackupclientctl are as follows:

USAGE:

        urbackupclientctl [--help] [--version] <command> [<args>]

Get specific command help with urbackupclientctl <command> --help

        urbackupclientctl start
                Start an incremental/full image/file backup

        urbackupclientctl status
                Get current backup status

        urbackupclientctl browse
                Browse backups and files/folders in backups

        urbackupclientctl restore-start
                Restore files/folders from backup

        urbackupclientctl set-settings
                Set backup settings

        urbackupclientctl reset-keep
                Reset keeping files during incremental backups

        urbackupclientctl add-backupdir
                Add new directory to backup set

        urbackupclientctl list-backupdirs
                List directories that are being backed up

        urbackupclientctl remove-backupdir
                Remove directory from backup set

For more information, please refer to the UrBackup Administration Documentation.

Contributing 🤝

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests.

License 📃

This project is licensed under the Apache License - see the LICENSE file for details.