borg-qt/docs/docs.org

• Notes
  • 2017-10-10 Tue
• Tasks
• Resources

Borg Interface

Notes

2017-10-10 Tue

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12042724/securely-storing-passwords-for-use-in-python-script
• http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt5/designer.html
• https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
• http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/designer-quick-start.html
• https://backintime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mainwindow.html
• http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quickstart.html
• http://www.bogotobogo.com/Qt/Qt5_QTreeView_QDirModel_ModelView_MVC.php

Tasks

• Rewrite the config so that it uses Python directly instead of INI. This way I don't need to parse anything and it should be easy enough to work with for anyone. In addition I can use all the advanced functionality from Python instead of wrestling with the INI format and JSON. Inspired by this post ¹
• Remove functional tests from unittests
• [x] Display help at first run Could be done with a checkbox on the window which gets written to the config file. Something like show_help = False
• add the ability to select multiple weekdays

• Clean up the Config class, currently all the options get assigned manually, however it would be much better if I could add those programmatically. This way it would be much easier to extend Borg-Qt. One way to to this would be to get all attributes from the class and then filter them so that I only get the list of my attributes and not all of the class (there are a lot of dunder methods). This links might help:

  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9058305/getting-attributes-of-a-class#9058322
  • http://www.codercaste.com/2010/01/11/how-to-filter-lists-in-python/
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/191010/how-to-get-a-complete-list-of-objects-methods-and-attributes

• bugfixing https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13562501/why-i-get-qtimer-can-only-be-used-with-threads-started-with-qthread-messages-i

• [x] auto-remove snaphots

  • Keep:

    • 1 snapshot / Year
    • 1 snapshot / Month
    • 1 snapshot / Week
    • 1 snapshot / Day
    • 1 snapshot / Hour
• setup repository

• add prompt when running hypervisor is detected

  • Prompt the user if it detects that a hypervisor, in my case virtualbox is running. This way we would prevent the user from backing up a running VM which then might not work after a restore.
  • It would probably be nice if it would detect other hyper visors as well. Probably the system will have to ask the user if he wants to run the backup anyway since it might be not possible to determine if borg is backing up vms.

• [x] create backup jobs -> systemd in userhome Should this run borg_interface or should it run borg directly? Might require a lot of parsing.

  • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/systemd_unit/1.0.5
• change repository

• borg_interface add a check to see if borg hangs If it hangs kill it and unlock it on the server.

  • have a look at the offlineimap script

    • offline imap had the same problem that it hung sometimes however there's a script which detects if it hangs. I could probably use this script.
• [x] allow only one running snapshot Because borg keeps a lock on the repository the application shouldn't allow a second backup to start. Borg throws an exeption if you want to run it again, maybe we can capture it and then won't have to write our own check.
• search in snapshots for a file this would be really greate if you deleted a file and want ot recover it. Maybe start with the latest snapshot then work backwards.
• provide all features borg provides
• check if connected to home wifi https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15280755/checking-if-i-am-connected-to-a-particular-wifi-network-linux-ubuntu
• Setup Wizard
• Pop Up for Name
• Init prompt when repository missing
• store backup log in sqlite db, snapshot name is primary key
• [x] Delete braucht dialog wegen mount
• [x] Archives in Repository
• restore mit wizard machen

Resources

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¹

https://beepb00p.xyz/configs-suck.html