Backup-codes

Collection of Bash codes that automate the backup of data

For this collection of codes to work the following must be completed:
Installation of rclone https://rclone.org/install/
Configuration of rclone with Team Drive https://rclone.org/drive/

Linux usage

Installation/Configuration

The backup codes are contained within src/backup.sh simply move this file to a desired location.
Edit the following variables in src/backup.sh

# your directory in the google drive
GOOGLE_DIRNAME="Daniel Sauceda"

# Name of the team drive done when configuring rclone team drive
RCLONE_REMOTE_NAME="Arroyave_team_drive"

Functions

There are three functions that should be adequate to backup your files

# sync a directory to the Team google Drive
rclone_sync_backup
# Tar a directory and upload to dated backup directory in the Team Google Drive
tar_directory_backup

# Tar subdirectories within a root directory and upload the root directory to a dated backup directory in the Team Google Drive
tar_subdirectories_backup

intended Usage

The idea is you can copy paste the different function names at the bottom of the script like so:

### YOUR CODE HERE
rclone_sync_backup -d ~/AA_BB --exclude '*analysis_AA_BB/**'
tar_directory_backup -d ~/new_elastic_structures --exclude 'AA_BB_CC_DD

However in the case of different directories you may wish to backup different directories at differnt time intervals. Therefore, simply copy backup.sh to backup1.sh, backup1.sh etc such that:

backup1.sh

### YOUR CODE HERE
rclone_sync_backup -d ~/AA_BB --exclude '*analysis_AA_BB/**'

backup2.sh

### YOUR CODE HERE
tar_directory_backup -d ~/new_elastic_structures --exclude 'AA_BB_CC_DD

Crontab integration

using contab -e we can specify the intervals at which each backup will execute http://crontab.org/

Example: