Quick start guide

First, you obviously need to install Polyarchiv, and display the default configuration directory (should be /etc/polyarchiv):

sudo pip install polyarchiv
polyarchiv config

Then you can add a collect point, indicating the data to backup:

mkdir -p /var/backups/my-project
cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/polyarchiv/my-project.collect
[point]
frequency=daily
engine=files
local_path=/var/backups/my-project

[source "database"]
engine=postgressql
host=localhost
user=test
password=p@ssw0rd
database=testdb
destination_path=./database.sql

[source "files"]
engine=rsync
source_path=/var/my-project/data
destination_path=./files
EOF

And then we want to synchronize these data to a remote server using rsync.

cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/polyarchiv/my-server.backup
[point]
frequency=daily
engine=synchronize
remote_url=ssh://backupuser@my-server/var/backups/backup_points/{name}/
private_key=/home/backupuser/.ssh/id_rsa
EOF

You can now check your configuration, and execute the first backup step-by-step:

polyarchiv config -v
polyarchiv backup --show-commands --confirm-commands