Handles creation, mounting, and compression of MacOS sparse disk images

Install PySparseMac from here or with pip (soon)

  pip install pysparsemac

I have another project that automates a service backup. I decided I wanted to write all of the files to a disk image and compress it in an automated fashion. This is the result, a wrapper around hdiutil.

creates an uncompressed disk image at specificed location.

path: full path (directory and filename) of uncompressed disk image to be created
name: volume name of the mounted disk image
size: size of uncompressed disk image

mount the disk image previously created.

path: full path (directory and filename) of uncompressed disk image

unmounts a mounted disk image.

vol_id: Volume ID of the disk to unmount

creates a compressed ULMO format disk in the same directory as the uncompressed disk.

path: full path (directory and filename) of uncompressed disk image to be compressed

move compressed disk to different location.

path: full path (directory and filename) of compressed disk image to be moved
destination_dir: destination to move disk to

runs through the full suite of functions to demonstrate the module.

import pysparsemac

pysparsemac.demo_it()

Things to do...

• Docs
• PyPI
• more error checking
• more exception messages
• more comments
• functions return dict with success field, etc
• function to dispose of uncompressed image
• better function names, more readable variables in the demo function, make it easier to follow
• Add more integrations(?)

MIT

@lazymutt Todd McDaniel