Setting up development environment
Having a python >= 3.7 interpreter installed. Most linux distributions will ship a python interpreter. For windows, you'd need to download and install one from https://python.org
In order to test latest npbackup main git, you may setup a development environment as follows:
- Download latest npbackup main branch via git
git clone https://github.com/netinvent/npbackup
Alternatively, you can download the zip file from github and extract it into a dedicated folder
- Create a venv from your current python installation
Change directory into the git/downloaded npbackup directory and setup a virtual environment for Python
cd npbackup
python -m venv venv
- Setup NPBackup requirements for your virtual environment
On Linux:
venv/bin/python -m pip install -r npbackup/requirements.txt
On windows
venv\scripts\python.exe -m pip install -r npbackup\requirements.txt
- Install restic binaries
Once in your environment, you can install restic binaries with the following command:
On Linux
venv/bin/python RESTIC_SOURCE_FILES/update_restic.py
On Windows
venv\Scripts\python.exe RESTIC_SOURCE_FILES\update_restic.py
- Run NPBackup
On Linux
venv/bin/python bin/npbackup-gui
On Windows
venv\scripts\python.exe bin\npbackup-gui