#borgbackup
Borgbackup is a deduplicating backup system. After install this script will make backups for you. Run as root.
Set up Python 3 virtual local environment to be used and invoked by root, and which will be in turn used to install and run the borg-backup script. This is a way to ensure the Python environment consistently meets requirements, so you could approach this step in different ways if you wanted to. The borgbackup install docs provide the necessary steps for different operating systems.
Modify .borg.env and paths in script to meet your needs. Copy .borg.env to /root. Copy the script to /etc/cron.daily and ensure executable.
Use the commented commands to initialize your repositories, test and use!
A command like rsync -ra source destination will make a copy of the repo which could be on an external destination for off-site storage.
Installing on RHEL6 is a bit messy. Eventually I used Python 3.4 from Rehat Collections reposoity, because it was the best version to support virtualenv which met Borgs requirements. Also I could not make fuse work because the available versions of fuse for RHEL6 are all <2.9, thus python module llfuse would not install. In the future I might work sround this using Docker since I am stuck with RHEL6 for a while.
To use borg, first one switches to the Python 3 enviroment, then to the borg env, per the setup docs. This scripts tend to have something like this near the beginning.
. /opt/rh/rh-python34/enable
. /root/borg-env/bin/activate