Backup of David's Livejournal

My Remote Backup Script is working nicely. After the backup, it writes some status to a file, "rsync_completed.txt."

But I noticed a few days ago that one of my backups didn't run. That's probably because the computer wasn't on at the designated time, or possibly because nobody was logged in, or that the system was too busy to run that particular task.

In any case, I wrote a Remote Backup Occurred Doublechecker. It runs every time I log in.  Because I'm crazy. I thought about making it a DOS batch script, but went with Python because it'd be faster for me that way.

And just to reveal my craziness, here it is (mostly):

try:
    rsync_file = os.path.join(my_root, "rsync_completed.txt")
    scriptname = sys.argv[0]
    if os.sep in scriptname:
        scriptname = scriptname.rsplit(os.sep, 1)[1]
    ask_user = False
    if not os.path.exists(rsync_file):
        import win32con
        ask_user = True
        msg = "Could not verify backup with file %s. Backup now?" % rsync_file
        flags = win32con.MB_ICONWARNING | win32con.MB_YESNO
    else:
        mtime = os.path.getmtime(rsync_file)
        dur = datetime.timedelta(seconds=time.time() - mtime)
        if dur.days > 2:
            import win32con
            ask_user = True
            msg = "It's been %s days since the last backup. Backup now?" % dur
            flags = win32con.MB_ICONQUESTION | win32con.MB_YESNO
    if ask_user:
        import win32ui
        response = win32ui.MessageBox(msg, scriptname, flags)
        if response == 6:
            import subprocess
            cmd = os.path.join(my_root, "backup_to_dreamhost.bat")
            subprocess.Popen(cmd)
except Exception, e:
    f = file(os.path.join(my_root, "Desktop", "%s Fail.txt") % scriptname, 'w')
    f.write("An exception occurred: %s %s\n" % (str(e.__class__), str(e)))
    traceback.print_exc(file = f)
    f.close()