git¶

This plugin clones and pulls a git repository to the backup machine. First it will check if a repository is already cloned to destination and if not it will clone and do a git pull afterwards. On the next runs it will just do a git pull.

Dependencies¶

git

Configuration¶

A list of required configuration keys:

source: A repository url to clone from.
destination

Here’s an example:

logs:
  dir: /var/log/dothebackup
  keep: 10
backup:
  my_repository:
    type: git
    enabled: yes
    source: https://github.com/xsteadfastx/DoTheBackup.git
    destination: /media/backup/repos/dothebackup

API¶

Git.

dothebackup.plugs.git.main(config)[source]¶

Command builder.

Parameters:	config (`Dict`[`str`, `Union`[`str`, `List`[`str`], `bool`]]) – config snippet for this plugin
Return type:	`List`[`List`[`str`]]
Returns:	Commands to create the backup