This creates a backup on the local filesystem, but does not persist it anywhere else. Right now the best solution i have to to manually upload this to proton drive.

configure

Can add new backups to this by adding another conf file. See services.json for examples and exclude patterns for more details.

running

Can run with ./backup.py, or create a cron job. current crontab entry is. (every sat at 0105.)

sudo crontab -e
5 1 * * 6 /home/craig/services/simple-backup/backup.py >> /var/log/simple-backup.log 2>&1

want to change this to once a week or something, just like on sunday

exlude patterns

Uses simple "filter" in "path", so no globbing/regexing.

For directories, having a trailing slash means it includes the dir but none of its contents.