Poor.Backup.System

A blazing stupid backup solution for Windows & Linux - based on a simple PowerShell Module working with Powershell Core on both Linux and Windows platform (should work also on Mac but not tested currently).

This project was just a demo to play with Powershell Core on both Linux and Windows to study differences & bugs.

At the end, this is the release. It's a very simple stuff I have built to be able to save easily file during some tests phase on non-industrialized environments.

(c) 2019 lucas-cueff.com Distributed under Artistic Licence 2.0 (https://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0).

Description

This release (I am not sure it will be another one, but don't hesitate to ask if you want some new features...) can be used to build a backup list and easily add/remove item to this list from a Powershell command line and then start a backup of this list... Your backup is availabe as zip or classic folder with log files.

Exported Functions and Alias

Functions

• Start-PoorBackup
• Set-PoorBackupSettings
• Add-ItemToPoorBackup
• Remove-ItemFromPoorBackup
• Import-PoorBackupSettings
• Write-PoorBackupLog

install Poor.Backup.System from PowerShell Gallery repository

You can easily install it from powershell gallery repository https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Poor.Backup.System/ using a simple powershell command and an internet access :-)

	Install-Module -Name Poor.Backup.System

import module from PowerShell

	C:\PS> import-module Poor.Backup.System.psd1

module content

documentation in markdown available here : https://github.com/MS-LUF/Poor.Backup.System/tree/master/docs

Play with it - Linux sample

Create your main config file

create my main config file in default location ($home/.PoorBackup/settings.xml) to backup "/var/www","/etc/nginx","/etc/stuff" in /home/you as an archive and log it in /var/log

	PS> Set-PoorBackupSettings -LogDir /var/log -TargetBackupDir /home/you -ItemsToBackup @("/var/www","/etc/nginx","/etc/stuff") -CompressBackup

Load one of my conf file before running a backup

Load mybackupstuff.xml from /tmp

	PS> Import-PoorBackupSettings -SettingsFile /tmp/mybackupstuff.xml

Add a new item to my backup list

Add "/test/important" to my backup list

	PS> get-item "/test/important" | Add-ItemToPoorBackup

Remove an existing item from my backup list

Remove "/test/notimportant" from my backup list

	Remove-ItemFromPoorBackup -BackupItem "/test/notimportant"

Start a backup session

	PS> Start-PoorBackup