backup-simple

Backup rotation daily, weekly, monthly for small file footprint.

Install

npm install backup-simple

Description

The back up looks for an attached memory stick, creates a backup directory (backup) then copies the files three times to a daily, weekly, and monthly folder.

The files are over written so that there are

• 7 daily folders
• 5 weekly folders
• One monthly folder for month in the year.

So in affect current week each day, current month each week, and one per month for ever.

Sample Folders

On March 1 2018 the following folders are created:

• /backup/2018_03
• /backup/2018_03_week01
• /backup/2018_03_01_thursday

On March 2 2018

• /backup/2018_03 (over written)
• /backup/2018_03_week01 (over written)
• /backup/2018_03_01_thursday (unchanged)
• /backup/2018_03_02_friday (new)

One week later March 8 2018

• /backup/2018_03 (over written)
• /backup/2018_03_week01
• /backup/2018_03_week02 (new)
• /backup/2018_03_08_thursday (new)
• /backup/2018_03_02_friday
• /backup/2018_03_03_saturday
• /backup/2018_03_04_sunday
• /backup/2018_03_05_monday
• /backup/2018_03_06_tuesday
• /backup/2018_03_07_wendsday

Sample Code

const { runBackUp } = require("backup-simple");
runBackUp("./test/testFiles/source/").then(function(complete) {
    console.log(complete);
});