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I am Amazing — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:50:19 -0000

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 You will need to schedule this script in the task scheduler if you want completely automate this script. Use crontab in Unix or Task Scheduler on Windows to schedule the script.

-For detailed help, please refer to http://blogger.technokan.com/2016/01/automate-backup-with-python-script.html
+For detailed help, please refer to http://blogger.iamamazing.in/2016/01/automate-backup-with-python-script.html

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Amith Nayak — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:42:27 -0000

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-Welcome to your wiki!
+#pyCompry
+###A Python Script to Compress and Copy a Folder = pyCompry

-This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a new page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage].
+####This is the README file for pyCompry, a script to automate compression and transfer of any folder.

-The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/pycompry/wiki/markdown_syntax/) syntax.
+#### Installation & Usage
+#####On Linux
+Install python and execute the script
+This script is devopped using Python 3. Therefore, you will need to install python 3 package.

-[[members limit=20]]
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+Run this command to install python on Unix
+
+    apt-get install python3
+
+After installing python3, verify if the python3 is installed correctly. Just run the below command and it should return the python version number.
+
+    python3 --version
+
+Clone this repository onto the server or device you are planning to run this script. Once dowloaded, your may run the script by running the below command. Please correct the paths as per your actual paths.
+
+    python pyCompry.py -i /user/somesourcefolder -o /mnt/remotemount/somebackupfolder
+
+#####On Windows
+Download and install the Python 3. You may download from https://www.python.org/downloads/
+
+Open CMD and run this command
+
+    python pyCompry.py -i d:\somesourcefolder -o x:\SomeMappedRemoteFolder
+
+You can use this script to automate backup of any folder. This script, once executed with input and output arguments, will check the output folder for any previously created zip file and then create a new zip file containing the contents of the input folder. This is useful in automating backup of any folder as well as useful in transferring large files over a slow network since it compresses the source. Example:- You have scheduled a daily backup of your Database and destination to store backup files is a local folder within the same server. Now you want to automate the transfer of these backup files to a DR server. In such cases, you can use this script to automate the backup of these files to a DR server/site.
+
+You will need to schedule this script in the task scheduler if you want completely automate this script. Use crontab in Unix or Task Scheduler on Windows to schedule the script.
+
+For detailed help, please refer to http://blogger.technokan.com/2016/01/automate-backup-with-python-script.html

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Amith Nayak — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:11:19 -0000

Welcome to your wiki!

This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a new page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage].

The wiki uses Markdown syntax.

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