Archivist

The archivist is run from a either a central archivist.py script

Running ./archivist.py alone will back up all configured services.

You can also back up a single service by running ./archivist.py backup service

Configuring the Archivist

The Archivist is configured with a yaml file at ~/.archivist.yml

Example:

services:
    github:
        name: "Github"
        service_type: github
        backup_folder: /home/user/backups/github
        user: gh-user 
    pinboard:
        name: "Pinboard"
        service_type: pinboard
        backup_folder: /home/user/backups/pinboard
        user: pbuser
        token: 0xDEADBEEF
    fastmail:
        name: "Email Host"
        service_type: imap
        backup_folder: /home/user/backups/fastmail
        server: imap.email.host.name
        user: user@email.host.name 
        password: Hunter2 
        cleanup: False
        compress: True

Supported Services

• Github
• Pinboard
• IMAP servers

Service Notes

Github

The Archivist only supports backups of a users public repositories and gists at this time. See #2.

IMAP Servers

The Archivist is currently tested against Fastmail, other IMAP servers may present issues. Report an issue with any problesm you see.