#This Demo is used to compress files to .zip file
#Base on Windows
import os
import time
#The files or directories you want to compress
source=['e:\\log2.log',r'e:\2013_8_15_S1.dmp',r'e:\Reflector']
#The target directory you want to place the zip file
target_dir='e:\\mybackup\\'
today=target_dir+time.strftime('%Y%m%d')
now=time.strftime('%H%M%S')
# if the path not exist, then create it
if not os.path.exists(today):
os.mkdir(today)
print('Successfully created directory',today)
comments=input("Please add some comments for this backup: ")
if len(comments)==0:
target=today +os.sep+now+'.zip'
else:
target=today +os.sep+now+'_'+comments.replace(" ","_")+'.zip'
zip_command = '"C:\\Program Files\\WinRAR\\Rar.exe" a %s %s' %(target," ".join(source))
if os.system(zip_command) == 0:
print ('Successful backup to', target)
else:
print('Backup Failed')
