Simplifies the management of a multilevel backup structure with rsnapshot especially for not always-on devices. Since rsnapshot takes only care about the actual backup process, the handling and timing of multiple backup level is left to the user. For simple setups, this issue can be easily solved with cron jobs, but notably with not always-on devices the manual management can easily result in irreversible mistakes.

Multilevel-backup handles all calls to rsnapshot, the only thing needed is a valid rsnapshot config file. At every invocation, it takes care about performing

• Only one backup a day
• Higher backup level as needed

This way, you never have to think about when to call a higher level backup just because you missed a backup.

At the moment only a backup setup with the intervals daily, weekly and monthly is supported. So your rsnapshot.conf file should contain something like this:

retain		daily	7   # Will be performed after 1 day difference
retain		weekly	4   # Will be performed after 7 days difference
retain		monthly	3   # Will be performed after 28 days difference

The interval count can differ, multilevel-backup will parse them. All difference days are referring to date difference, so if a daily backup took place on 05.11.2015 20:00, a second one will be performed on 06.11.2015 15:00, although the actual difference is less than 24 hours.

Multilevel-backup has no special requirements, it just needs:

• Python >= 3.3
• Functional rsnapshot installation

Currently, multilevel-backup is not available on PyPi. To get it, clone it with

$ git clone https://github.com/itiboi/multilevel-backup.git

and install it with

$ python3 ./setup.py install

To perform a backup, just call

$ multilevel-backup -c path/to/rsnapshot/config

and relax.

If you want to execute backups automatically, just create a cron job with this call to invoke it daily (or different, just as you setup requires) and multilevel-backup cares about the rest.

To do a dry run, just add -d to the call. It prints all calls that would be invoked.

If you encounter any problems, do not hesitate to create an issue. If you want to help, just fork. Any help is wanted!

This project is published under the terms of GPLv3. For more information see LICENSE.txt