#!/usr/bin/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']
# 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
# 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))
# Run the backup
if os.system(zip_command) == 0:
print 'Successful backup to', target
else:
print 'Backup FAILED'
按照上面的代码敲了一遍,改了相应的目录,结果却是遇到了错误:
zip error: Nothing to do! (try: zip -qr /home/zlc/LS/20120504225612.zip . -i /home/zlc/ABC/home/zlc/DEF)
Backup FAILED
Google之,发现别人似乎都能正常的执行,怎么自己就出错了呢,大惑不解。
当然,首先想到的是source那里出问题了,但是又不知道source的格式是怎样的,多次尝试后问题依旧。这时发现错误提示中两个目录是连在一起的,可能就是这里出错了,于是将source改为: