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Romil Rathi
Romil Rathi

Reputation: 1

Creating a backup and getting error only concenate list and not (str)

I'm trying to write a code to create backup of files or directory using Python but there is an error : can only concenate list not "str" Here's my code :

import os
import time

# The files or directory which has to be backed up
source = ['"F:\\College Stuffs"']

#The backup must be stored in a target directory
target_dir = ['"E:\\Backup"']

#File will be backed up in a zip file and name will be set to current date

target = target_dir + os.sep + time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S') + target.append('.zip')

# Create the directory if it's not present

if not os.path.exists(target_dir): 
    os.mkdir(target_dir) #Make the directory

#Use zip command to put files in a zip archive

zip_command = "zip -r {} {}".format(target,''.join(source))

#run the backuo
print "Zip command is : "
print zip_command
print "Running:"
if os.system(zip_command) == 0:
    print 'Successful backup to', target
else:
    print 'Backup FAILED'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 42

Answers (1)

tynn
tynn

Reputation: 39853

You've defined a list

#The backup must be stored in a target directory
target_dir = ['"E:\\Backup"']

while your usage indicates you'd intended to use a str there:

#The backup must be stored in a target directory
target_dir = '"E:\\Backup"'

Upvotes: 1

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