Sprinkle (Volume Clustering)

Sprinkle is a volume clustering utility. It presents all the RClone available volumes as a single clustered volume. It supports 1-way sync mainly for backup and recovery. Sprinkle uses the excellent RClone software for cloud volume access.

Features:

• Consolidate multiple cloud drives into a single virtual drive
• Sprinkle your backup across multiple cloud drives
• Minimize cost by stacking multiple free cloud drives into single one
• Run as Unix daemon with custom schedules for seamless backups of important files
• Developed in Python for extreme multi-platform flexibility

Getting Started

The easiest way to install Sprinkle and all prerequisites is via PyPI with:

pip3 install sprinkle-py

Or by cloning the repository to your running machine, but make sure prerequisites are met:

git clone https://gitlab.com/mmontuori/sprinkle.git
cd sprinkle
./sprinkle.py -c sprinkle.conf ls /

A more comprehensive guide can be found here

Prerequisites

• Python 3 installed
• FileLock Python library https://pypi.org/project/filelock
• Progress Python library https://pypi.org/project/progress
• RClone installed and available in the PATH or configured in sprinkle.conf file. RClone documentation is available here for reference
• Few storage drives available from the supported RClone drives

Installing

Following are the installation steps:

• Install Sprinkle with a supported method
• Download and install RCLone from https://rclone.org
• Run RClone config to configure and authorize your cloud or local storage (you might want to run the program on a machione for which http://localhost can be reached ideally, from your local workstation)
• Verify access to the storage by issuing the command "rclone ls {alias name}:"
• Copy rclone.conf on the machine which will execute Sprinkle
• Make sure all the prerequisites are satisfied
• Add RClone executable to the system PATH variable, or configure location in sprinkle.conf file
• From Sprinkle installation directory run "./sprinkle.py [-c path to sprinkle.conf] ls /"

From this point, backups and restore can be executed on the clustered storage.

./sprinkle.py -c {path to sprinkle.conf} backup {directory to backup}

Use the builtin --help utility to get additional commands and information.

./sprinkle.py --help

and the command specific help.

./sprinkle.py help {command}

Authors

• Michael Montuori - Head developer - mmontuori

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• Warren Crigger for development support