Backup tools are implemented as paver tasks.

Supported operations:

• (mysql) List mysql databases
• (mysql) Dump mysql database (or several or all)
• (archive) Compress a file or a dir into gz/bz2/zip archive
• (backup) Generate backup file name with current date/time based on specified backup base name
• (backup) Remove old backups for specified backup base name
• (encrypt) Encrypt file with gnupg

Each task can be launched separately via paver, for example:

$ ./paver mysqldump --mysql_user=root --db redmine --db sugarcrm --dest=/home/seb/backups

Paver also can show the list of available tasks:

$ ./paver --help

And a help for a specific command:

$ ./paver mysqldump --help

Examples of top-level tasks which combine base operations to perform a backup are in the main pavement.py file.

Also see backup.sh.example for master shell script to launch backup process (it can be used as a cron job):

$ sudo crontab -e
@midnight /home/seb/backups/backup.sh >/home/seb/backups/backup.log 2>/home/seb/backups/backup.err.log

Tasks implementation is based on following code (see ex/ folder):

• s3-backup.
• subversion hot backup script
• Python script to backup mysql databases on Debian

Paver resourses:

• Paver documentation
• Paver github repository
• Converting from Make to Paver