I needed to make a backup of my vaultwarden installation, and I hate Shellscripts. So I wrote a Python script, using only stdlib functions to perform the job.
root@server:/export/vaultwarden# tree -d
.
├── backups
├── bin
└── vaultwarden
├── attachments
├── icon_cache
├── sends
└── tmp
7 directories
The script will backup all files from /export/vaultwarden/vaultwarden
to a staging directory below /export/vaultwarden/backups.
The staging directory will then be collected into a .tar.bz2 archive,
which is left in /export/vaultwarden/backups, and the stage is removed.
A Python class Backup accepts the datadir and backupdir parameters.
datadir is in my case /export/vaultwarden/vaultwarden, and backupdir
is /export/vaultwarden/backups.
A parameter debug can be set to True for some output, it is False by default.