This is a simple backup script which started as a backup solution that should not need further maintenance, since it is used by my parents to backup their data. It is a complete solution to backup the home folder of a computer to an external drive formatted with a filesystem that can store the attributes of the source filesystem.
- Incremental but with complete folders like with Time Maschine from Apple
- Deduplication of files with hardlinks
- Configurable amount of backups that should be kept
- Can be stored on the external harddrive for documentation
- No local temporary storage needed
Either
- Place these files in the root of your backup drive, mount the drive at
/media/Backupand double click the
shown in your file browser or just run ./scripts/backup.sh.
or
- Have a look at the top of scripts/backup.ss there are some configuration variables to tweak and specify source and target folders, etc.
There is some server support for backup to tar files saved directly on a FTP Server on the server branch. This works well but is probably very specific to my use case. Just in case someone is interested in this.