This Backup API let's you upload and store images from your computer to a cloud service like Google Photos. You can use this to Backup Photos from your Computer.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

This project is based on Flask and Python 2.7.x. The Backup API is made to run on a server. It assumes a setup like the one used at uberspace.de, i.e. CentOS 6 or higher, Apache 2 and FastCGI.

However, you can also run it locally. To prepare for installation, make sure, you have at least Python 2.7 and pip up and running!

On Windows, download the latest version of Python 2.7 and install it. Make sure to set your PATH variable accordingly!

If you need help on Windows, you will find more information in the [Python 2 Installation guide][How To Install Python 2.7.md].

On macOS and most Linux, python is pre-installed. There is no need to install anything as a prerequisite.

Bare in mind that the Backup API was written with a uberspace server in mind. This means, it assumes Apache 2 and FastCGI.

You may have to customize the API to fit your needs if not using uberspace.

It should be sufficient to change the script/backup.fcgi.

Download the Backup API and extract:

[jasmin@fornax ~]$ url="`curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/michagrandel/Python-Pre-Setup/releases/latest | grep tarball_url | cut -d '"' -f 4`"
[jasmin@fornax ~]$ wget $url -O BackupAPI.tar
[jasmin@fornax ~]$ tar -xvf BackupAPI.tar > name.txt
[jasmin@fornax ~]$ mv $(head -n 1 "name.txt") BackupAPI
[jasmin@fornax ~]$ rm BackupAPI.tar name.txt

Install the python module:

[jasmin@fornax ~]$ cd ~/BackupAPI 
[jasmin@fornax BackupAPI]$ python2.7 setup.py install

Copy the content of the script directory into ~/fcgi-bin:

[jasmin@fornax ~]$ cp ~/BackupAPI/script/* ~/fcgi-bin/

You are ready!

If you like to run the tests, just open a terminal in the project directory and run:

python -m unittest discover -s ~/BackupAPI/test -p "*_test.py"

• Dropwizard - The web framework used
• Maven - Dependency Management
• ROME - Used to generate RSS Feeds

First of all: Thank you very kindly for your interest in contributing to our code!

Please take a moment and read CONTRIBUTING.md to get you started!

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the releases on this repository.

• Micha Grandel - Author and maintainer - Github

We thank all of our contributors, who participated in this project.

This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details