I’ve had complex backup solutions in the past, which I wrote myself with rsync and bash. I’ve recently got sick and tired of the issues that come up now and then with them, so I decided to keep it extremely simple. So, I decided to opt for a couple of rsync only shell scripts. I get emails every time they run, as part of cron.
So, the cronjobs look like this…
0 8-19 * * 1 /home/trenta/backup/monday-rsync.sh
0 8-19 * * 2-5 /home/trenta/backup/daily-rsync.sh
monday-rsync.sh...
#!/bin/bash
# /home/trenta/backup/monday-rsync.sh
/usr/bin/rsync -avH --exclude-from=/home/trenta/backup/daily-excludes.txt /home/trenta/ /media/backup/trenta-home/daily-rsync.sh…
#!/bin/bash
# /home/trenta/backup/daily-rsync.sh
/usr/bin/rsync -avH --exclude-from=/home/trenta/backup/daily-excludes.txt --link-dest=/media/backup/trenta-home/ /home/trenta/ /media/backup/trenta-home-$(/bin/date +'%w')/