This bash script will help you to backup your data on *nix sytems (like MacOS X, Linux, BSD, Solaris, ...) with the help of the rsync tool.
The script is highly configurable and can be extended in many ways.
Personally, I use the backup script to
- get database and file backups from some servers I run on the internet
- backup important data from my laptop's SSD to it's internal hard drive (in case either one fails one day)
- backup all files from my laptop to my encrypted USB hard drive
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Drop the script to a folder in your path e.g. /usr/local/sbin or /usr/local/bin or /usr/sbin or /usr/bin
You can find out which directories are in your path by entering echo $PATH on the command line interface (CLI).
- bash (tested with version )
- rsync (tested with version )
- cron or other job scheduler if you want to schedule automatic backups
Most shared hosting machines will cover the above.
Install rsync on debian: apt-get install rsync Install rsync on RHEL / Centos: yum -y install rsync
On Unix/Linux based systems, you'd use cron to execute backup script if you don't want to do it manually. E.g. if our backup script should be run once a week (like every sunday night at 23:55h or 11.55pm), the cron file would have an entry like this:
55 23 * * 0 backup.sh