pacman -S rustic
# or get the binary binary from https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic/releases/tag/v0.11.4

# and install lohup using uv
uv tool install git+https://github.com/kam1sh/lohup

Usage

Example configuration see in corresponding directory

CLI examples:

lohup --config config.toml restic --repo cloud -- init
# if config=lohup.toml then option can be omitted
lohup backup-all
lohup snapshots --repo cloud

Core features

Configuration in TOML
Local database for snapshot information
Backup hooks, such as create/remove btrfs snapshot before backup
Environment variables

Features in TODO

LVM hooks
Better error handling and printing
Verbose/debug messages
Metrics and OpenTelemetry support
Binary releases, win+linux amd64 along with Python wheel
Include files in profiles with paths-from
Pluggable engines

Development

git clone git@github.com:kam1sh/lohup lohup-dev && cd lohup-dev
# install dependencies
uv sync --group dev
# run tests
uv run pytest --tb=short
# building binaries to dist directory
uv run pyinstaller -F lohup-cli.spec

[1] in Russian language loh (лох) means "dummy" or "loser". So, yeah, backups are for losers.