1 #This Demo is used to compress files to .zip file
 2 #Base on Windows
 3 
 4 import os
 5 import time
 6 
 7 #The files or directories you want to compress
 8 source=['e:\\log2.log',r'e:\2013_8_15_S1.dmp',r'e:\Reflector']
 9 
10 #The target directory you want to place the zip file
11 target_dir='e:\\mybackup\\'
12 
13 
14 today=target_dir+time.strftime('%Y%m%d')
15 now=time.strftime('%H%M%S')
16 
17 # if the path not exist, then create it
18 if not os.path.exists(today):
19     os.mkdir(today)
20     print('Successfully created directory',today)
21 
22 comments=input("Please add some comments for this backup: ")
23 
24 if  len(comments)==0:
25     target=today +os.sep+now+'.zip'
26 else:
27      target=today +os.sep+now+'_'+comments.replace(" ","_")+'.zip'
28      
29 
30 zip_command = '"C:\\Program Files\\WinRAR\\Rar.exe" a %s %s' %(target," ".join(source))
31 
32 
33 if os.system(zip_command) == 0:
34     print ('Successful backup to', target)
35 
36 else:
37     print('Backup Failed')