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+# Data Backup
+
+The `backup` example script shows how to use the SFTPGo REST API to backup your data.
+
+The script is written in Python and has the following requirements:
+
+- python3 or python2
+- python [Requests](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/) module
+
+The provided example tries to connect to an SFTPGo instance running on `127.0.0.1:8080` using the following credentials:
+
+- username: `admin`
+- password: `password`
+
+and, if you execute it daily, it saves a different backup file for each day of the week. The backups will be saved within the configured `backups_path`.
+
+Please edit the script according to your needs.
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from datetime import datetime
+import sys
+
+import requests
+
+try:
+	import urllib.parse as urlparse
+except ImportError:
+	import urlparse
+
+# change base_url to point to your SFTPGo installation
+base_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8080"
+# set to False if you want to skip TLS certificate validation
+verify_tls_cert = True
+# set the credentials for a valid admin here
+admin_user = "admin"
+admin_password = "password"
+
+# get a JWT token
+auth = requests.auth.HTTPBasicAuth(admin_user, admin_password)
+r = requests.get(urlparse.urljoin(base_url, "api/v2/token"), auth=auth, verify=verify_tls_cert, timeout=10)
+if r.status_code != 200:
+	print("error getting access token: {}".format(r.text))
+	sys.exit(1)
+access_token = r.json()["access_token"]
+auth_header = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + access_token}
+
+r = requests.get(urlparse.urljoin(base_url, "api/v2/dumpdata"),
+					params={"output-file":"backup_{}.json".format(datetime.today().strftime('%w'))},
+					headers=auth_header, verify=verify_tls_cert, timeout=10)
+if r.status_code == 200:
+	print("backup OK")
+else:
+	print("backup error, status {}, response: {}".format(r.status_code, r.text))