This rust CLI program with an almost meme name is a simple backup tool that I made primarily for myself. However, it can be useful for others interested in how to upload data to a GCS Bucket programmatically. I personally use this to create offsite backups for Minecraft directories on a linux remote server, but this works for every directory.

Warning: This is not going to work out of the box for you. You need to have a GCP account and a GCS bucket to use this. You will also need to change some of the code for your personal needs. I highly recommend basic async Rust knowledge to understand the code.

• Uploads a directory to a GCS Bucket
• Can be used as a manually triggered backup tool or as a cron job
• Efficient compression and upload process
• Capability to exclude specific directories from the backup
• Nice progress bar
• Configurable verbosity for debugging purpose

• A GCP account
• A GCS bucket
• A service account with the necessary permissions to upload to the bucket.
• A JSON key file for the service account
• Rust installed on your machine

This is not a guide on how to create a service account, but here are the basic steps:

1. Go to the GCP Console
2. Go to the IAM & Admin section
3. Go to Service Accounts
4. Create a new service account
5. Give it the necessary permissions to upload to the bucket
6. Create a JSON key file for the service account
7. Save the JSON key file in a safe place
8. Use the JSON key file in the program
9. Profit

You should most definitly read up on Google's IAM Documentation Guide on service accounts.

Ensure that Rust is installed on your machine. If not, you can install it from rustup.rs. You can check if Rust is installed by running rustc --version in your terminal.

Clone the repository and navigate to the directory in your terminal.

git clone https://github.com/defnot001/backup_maker_5000.git

Rename the config.example.json file to config.json and fill in the necessary information. Navigate to the directory and run the following command to build the program.

cargo build --release

The binary will be located in the target/release directory.

Execute the program with the required server type as the first argument:

./target/release/backup_maker_5000 smp

The first argument is positional. It is the name of the server type. This is used to determine which directory to backup.

• --exclude | -e: Exclude a directory from the backup. This can be used multiple times.
• --verbose | -v: Enable verbose output. This can be used multiple times.
• --help: Show the help message.
• --version: Show the version of the program.
• --about: Show the about message.

The --verbose flag can be used multiple times to increase the verbosity of the output.

• No flag: Shows the progress bar.
• -v: Shows the progress bar and warnings.
• -vv: Shows the progress bar, warnings, and info level information.
• -vvv: Shows the progress bar, warnings, info level information, and debug level information. (This spams the terminal pretty hard!)

If you have troubles with the program, please contact me or open an issue on the GitHub repository.