no cloud backup to local covered

[joschl]

The script checks $source with ls and therefore cannot perform any backup from a cloud provider.

[wolfv6]

I always assumed $source would be on the local box.
But now that you mention it, backing up something like Google Drive could be useful.

I have not tested $source as a cloud provider.
Does that work if you comment lines 82 to 85?:

# if source is empty
if ! ( ls -1qA $source | grep -q . ); then
    print_message "ERROR" "aborted because source is empty."
    exit 1
fi

[joschl]

that is exactly, what I did, to use your script for versioned cloud backups :)
thx btw

[wolfv6]

Good.
Please try replacing the conditional on line 82 with this:

# if source is empty
if ! ( rclone ls -q $source | grep -q . ); then

Let me know how it works.

[joschl]

Let me know how it works.

works. thx