EasyBackups (by ViscaWeb)

EasyBackups a little (and very light-weight) library helping in the process of backuping databases, files, etc..

What can I dump?

Databases

Platform	Implementation
MySQL	✅

Where can I save the dumps?

Savers	Implementation
FileSystem	✅
FTP	✅
Amazon S3 V3	✅
Copy.com	create ticket if you need it
Azure	create ticket if you need it
DropBox	create ticket if you need it

Which compression software is currently supported?

Compression	Implementation
.tar.xz	✅
.tar.gz	✅
.tar.bz2	✅
.zip	✅

How to install and use this script?

Available soon...

To do

Some improvements to achieve on this project:

Status / Priority	Suggestion
Planned as next improvement	Complete the README with the installation steps
Planned as next improvement	Delete old backups automatically
#1 priority	Verify the integrity of the backups
#2 priority	Support more file systems (in progress)
#2 priority	Complete the battery of tests (in progress)
To be defined	Provide an API to ensure the backups exists and is valid
To be defined	Send final report by emails
To be defined	Support more compressors
To be defined	Use a known project to handle the API (with a swagger documentation)
To be defined	Being able to download backups from the tools through a command
To be defined	Create differential backups (instead of full backups)
To be defined	Detect when the temporary folder does not have enough free space to welcome the backup
To be defined	Exporting MySQL: hiding the message 'Warning: Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.'
To be defined	Write meta-data about the backups (in order to retrieve them easily later)
To be defined	Detect when the difference of size of two consecutive backups is significant (@kristianmu)