Simple script to backup your Pryv.io data

Prerequisites: Node

In your terminal, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/pryv/pryv-account-backup.git to download the script

cd pryv-account-backup to go in the script folder

npm install to download required dependencies

npm start to launch the backup script.

This will ask you for the service-info url, username and password of the Pryv account you wish to back up.

You can finally choose to backup also trashed data as well as attachment files.

Your data will be downloaded in ./backup/{apiEndpoint}/

This downloads the following in JSON format:

• Public profile
• Accesses
• Followed slices
• Streams
• Events
• Account Info

As well as the following in binary files:

• Attachment files

The operation might take a while in case the data size is substantial. Please, leave requests here

It is also possible use the backup function in your code.

Add the following to your package.json: "pryv-backup":"git+ssh:https://[email protected]:pryv/pryv-account-backup.git"

then use it as following:

const backup = require('pryv-backup');

const settings = {
      service: SERVICE_INFO_URL,
      username: USERNAME  
      password: PASSWORD,  
      includeTrashed: true, // default: false  
      includeAttachments: true // default: false
    };  
settings.backupDirectory = new backup.Directory(apiEndPoint);  

backup.start(settings, function (err) {
      if (err) {
        // manage error
      }
      // ...
});

## (Experimental) Restore Streams and Events to another account

node scripts/start-restore.js <path to backup dir>

Prerequisites: Node v8+, yarn v0.27.5

Install dependencies: npm install

Run tests: npm run test

MIT License as included