backup...

Andrew Yushkov

now backup path
C:\Dropbox\Notepad++\

and np++ creating files after save
C:\Dropbox\Notepad++\test.txt.2016-03-04_201035.bak

need
C:\Dropbox\Notepad++#FILE_PATH##FILE_NAME#

C:\Dropbox\Notepad++\var\www\test.txt.2016-03-04_201035.bak

how to do such a thing?

Claudia Frank

afaik this isn’t possible to configure within npp at the moment.
What I can offer is a python script which could, more or less, handle it automatically.

from os import mkdir, rename
from os.path import split, exists
from glob import glob 

main_backup_dir = 'PATH_TO_YOUR\\backup\\'
new_directory = 'new\\' 

def callback_FILESAVED(args):
    console.show()                                                  # open python script console

    _file = notepad.getBufferFilename(args['bufferID'])             # returns the full path of the currently saved document
    dir_part, file_part = split(_file)                              # split the path into directory part and file part

    f_bck = glob(main_backup_dir + '{0}.*.bak'.format(file_part))   # retrieve the file from the backup directory as list
    dir_part, file_part = split(f_bck[0])                           # split the path into directory part and file part of first item in list
    
    if exists(main_backup_dir + new_directory) == False:            # check if backup directory structure already exists
        mkdir(main_backup_dir + new_directory)                      # it doesn't, let's create it
    rename(f_bck[0], main_backup_dir + new_directory+file_part)     # move backup file, by renaming it, to new backup directory
    
    
    console.write('file backed up: {0}\n'.format(main_backup_dir + new_directory+file_part)) # just to see that it has been backed up

notepad.clearCallbacks([NOTIFICATION.FILESAVED])
notepad.callback(callback_FILESAVED, [NOTIFICATION.FILESAVED])

The script assumes that only one backed up version of a file is in the backup directory, so for the first use you should, maybe,
empty the backup directory.

The opening question, I assume, is the directory structure to which a file belongs.

As you see, there are two split functions, the first splits the current document the latter the backed up one. It splits the
path into a directory part and into a file part, so, in theory, we could get the directory from the current path and add it to the
new path. As I assume that you are working on windows and the files reside on a disk the dir_part would always start
as, e.g. c:\ or d:\ which means, we could get the remaining part of path with

dir_part[3:]

which then could be added/used to/as new_directory

If this should be automatically done, the script needs to be called startup.py and python script plugin configuration
needs to be changed to ATSTARTUP

If there is still something unclear, let me know.

What needs to be done first is described here .
Just in case that you haven’t installed python script plugin yet, I would propose to use the MSI package instead of using the plugin manager.

Cheers
Claudia

Andrew Yushkov

thanks=)

from os import mkdir, rename
from os.path import split, exists
from glob import glob
from datetime import datetime
from shutil import copyfile
import time

main_backup_dir = ‘c:\np\’;

def callback_FILESAVED(args):
_file = notepad.getBufferFilename(args[‘bufferID’]) # returns the full path of the currently saved document
dir_part, file_part = split(_file) # split the path into directory part and file part
path = dir_part.split(“\”)
from_server = False;
for folder in path:
if folder == ‘var’ or folder == ‘etc’:
from_server = True
sub_path = main_backup_dir;
if from_server == True:
sub_path += folder+“\”;
if exists(sub_path) == False:
mkdir(sub_path)
if from_server == True:
sub_path += datetime.now().strftime(‘%Y%m%d’)+“\”;
if exists(sub_path) == False:
mkdir(sub_path)
copyfile(_file,sub_path+file_part+“.”+str(int(time.time()))+“.bak”)

notepad.clearCallbacks([NOTIFICATION.FILESAVED])
notepad.callback(callback_FILESAVED, [NOTIFICATION.FILESAVED])

Claudia Frank

Nice ;-) but why do you use if from_server == True twice?
Btw. if you indent the whole code by at least 4 spaces the structure gets keeped.

Cheers
Claudia

Andrew Yushkov

1st from_server - search path on server in loop
2nd from_server - copy file

from os import mkdir, rename
from os.path import split, exists
from glob import glob
from datetime import datetime
from shutil import copyfile
import time

main_backup_dir = 'c:\\np\\';

def callback_FILESAVED(args):
    _file = notepad.getBufferFilename(args['bufferID'])             # returns the full path of the currently saved document
    dir_part, file_part = split(_file)                              # split the path into directory part and file part
    path = dir_part.split("\\")
    from_server = False;
    for folder in path:
      if folder == 'var' or folder == 'etc':
        from_server = True
        sub_path = main_backup_dir;
      if from_server == True:
        sub_path += folder+"\\";
        if exists(sub_path) == False:
          mkdir(sub_path)
    if from_server == True:
      sub_path += datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d')+"\\";
      if exists(sub_path) == False:
        mkdir(sub_path)
      copyfile(_file,sub_path+file_part+"."+str(int(time.time()))+".bak")

notepad.clearCallbacks([NOTIFICATION.FILESAVED])
notepad.callback(callback_FILESAVED, [NOTIFICATION.FILESAVED])

Claudia Frank

I see, formatted code - better understanding ;-)
I put everything under the for loop so this didn’t quite make sense.
Jfyi, there is also a os.makedirs function which could create the structrue in one go.

Cheers
Claudia