archivist/readme.md

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:

backup_folder: /home/amd/backups

github_enabled: True
github_user: defunkt

pinboard_enabled: True
pinboard_user: idlewords
pinboard_token: 46a9d5bde718bf366178313019f04a753bad00685d38e3ec81c8628f35dfcb1b

imap_enabled: True
imap_localroot: maildir
imap_server: imap.email-host.com 
imap_user: me@email-host.com 
imap_password: hunter2 
imap_cleanup: 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.