#!/usr/bin/env python # Filename: backup_ver1.py import os import time # 1. The files and directories to be backed up are specified in a list. #source=['/home/swaroop/byte','/home/swaroop/bin'] source=['D:\\FileCopier\\*.*','D:\\jeecms_doc\\*.*'] # 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 directory #target_dir='/mnt/e/backup/' #Remember to change this to what you will be using target_dir='E:\\temp\\' #Remember to change this to what you will be using # 3. The files are backed up into a zip file # 4. The name of the zip archive is the current date and time target=target_dir+time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S')+'.zip' # 5. We use the zip command (in Unix/Linux) to put the files in a zip archive #zip_command="zip -qr '%s' %s" %(target,' '.join(source)) zip_command="rar a " + target + ' '.join(source) # Run the backup if os.system(zip_command)==0:  print 'Successful backup to',target else:  print 'Backup FAILED'