import osimport time# 1. The files and directories to be backed up are specified in a
list.source = ['/home/swaroop/byte', '/home/swaroop/bin']# If
you are using Windows, use source = [r'C:\Documents', r'D:\Work'] or something
like that
# 2. The backup must be stored in a main backup
directorytarget_dir = '/mnt/e/backup/'
# Remember to change this to what you will be
using# 3. The files are backed up into a zip
file.
# 4. The current day is the name of the subdirectory in the main
directorytoday = target_dir + time.strftime('%Y%m%d')# The current
time is the name of the zip archivenow = time.strftime('%H%M%S')# Take a
comment from the user to create the name of the zip filecomment
= raw_input('Enter
a comment --> ')if len(comment) == 0:
# check if a comment was
entered target = today + os.sep + now + '.zip'else: target = today + os.sep + now + '_'
+ \ comment.replace(' ', '_') +
'.zip' # Notice the
backslash!# Create the subdirectory if it
isn't already thereif not os.path.exists(today): os.mkdir(today) # make
directory print 'Successfully created directory',
today# 5. We use the zip command (in
Unix/Linux) to put the files in a zip archivezip_command =
"zip -qr '%s' %s" % (target, ' '.join(source))#
Run the backupif os.system(zip_command) == 0: print 'Successful backup to', targetelse: print 'Backup FAILED'