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# Usage: use the copy_and_backup_file() as a utility function for backing up a file.
#
# Purpose: the function copy_and_backup_file(src, dest_dir) copies file src to destination directory (if exists) and compress
#          the copied file in the destination directory (to save space).
#          
#
# Created on 7 December 2019 by Hui Lan (lanhui@zjnu.edu.cn)

import os, sys
from configure import UPDATE_NETWORK_LOG_FILE
from datetime import datetime
from log import write_log_file
from utils import make_paths

MINIMUM_SPACE_REQUIREMENT = 1 # Gigabytes

def disk_has_enough_space():
    available_G = 4 * os.statvfs('/home').f_bavail / (1024*1024) # compute available space (in Gigabytes).  Each block has 4k bytes, work for Linux/UNIX systems only
    if available_G < MINIMUM_SPACE_REQUIREMENT:
        print('[backup_files.py] home directory does not have enough space (only %4.1f G is available) ' % (available_G))
        write_log_file('[backup_files.py] WARNING: home directory does not have enough space (only %4.1f G is available)!  No backup is carried out.' % (available_G), UPDATE_NETWORK_LOG_FILE)        
        sys.exit()


def copy_and_backup_file(src_file, dest_dir):
    disk_has_enough_space() # make sure we have enough space first
    if not os.path.exists(src_file):
        sys.exit()
    make_paths(dest_dir) # if dest_dir does not exist, create it.
    curr_date = datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d')
    dest_file = os.path.join(dest_dir, os.path.basename(src_file) + '.' + curr_date)
    cmd = 'cp %s %s && gzip -f %s' % (src_file, dest_file, dest_file)
    os.system(cmd)
    write_log_file('[backup_files.py] File %s has been backed up to %s and zipped (.gz)' % (src_file, dest_file), UPDATE_NETWORK_LOG_FILE)            


## main
if __name__ == '__main__':
    copy_and_backup_file('../Data/temp/edges.txt', '../Analysis')