Loop Archive is a program that archives from one or more source locations to a single destination. Archiving is done by moving items from the source to the specified destination. While doing so, if the specified destination requires more storage than the allocated amount, the program will delete some of the existing items, starting from the oldest item.

Building

If you just want to build the binary to run, you can do so with either Docker or Bazel. It is easiest with Bazel:

bazel build :loop_archive.par

Then, bazel-bin/loop_archive.par will be the binary.

If you want to use Docker, see Installing.

Installing

We have an AUR package for installation:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/loop-archive-git.git
cd loop-archive-git

# If running rootful Docker.
./docker_build.bash

# If running rootless Docker.
ROOTLESS=yes ./docker_build.bash

# For Archlinux.
sudo pacman -U loop-archive-git-...pkg.tar.zst

# For other distributions or just to get the binary.
tar -xf loop-archive-git-...pkg.tar.zst

Configuring and Running

Simply write your everchanging.loop_archive.Config proto configuration and run with with that file passed to the --config_file flag.

Alternatively, we include a systemd template installed as part of the AUR package. Once you have the configuration file, you can run directly with systemd as follows:

systemctl --user start loop-archive@$(systemd-escape ${config_path}).service

Where ${config_path} is the config file with everchanging.loop_archive.Config proto.

Automation

You can automate running of Loop Archive by using the installed timer unit:

systemctl --user enable --now loop-archive@$(systemd-escape ${config_path}).timer

Where ${config_path} is the everchanging.loop_archive.Config proto configuration.