Simple Bash Backup Script

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A simple BASH script to do nightly backups to tarballs to a seperate hard drive (not to tape). Supports full and incremental backups. Ideal for linux home users to easily backup all or parts of their system, provided they have an extra hard drive.

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GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)

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wjlanders Edited 2015-01-26

Nice, easy to make some personal mods I chose. There is one problem I found. The tail continues to run after program end and you will end up with multi tail executions running in Linux. This modification seems to stop this. Change: "then tail -f $LOGFILE >&3 & # run tail in bg" To: "then tail --pid=$(pgrep -x simplebashbu) -f $LOGFILE >&3 & # run tail in bg"
tfileme Posted 2013-05-19

Very good Software.

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visumancer1 Posted 2012-06-22

I've used this script many times on many machines over the last 10 years. It's still a great tool. On my qmail servers, I make one adjustment to the email notification section. Original: then cat $LOGFILE | mail -s "$EMAILSUBJECT" $EMAILADDRESS Change to: then echo -e "Subject: <your server> Backup Completed Successfully\n" | cat - $LOGFILE | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject $EMAILADDRESS Maybe folks will find that useful. --Jeff
tooh Posted 2011-05-17

Nice script ported it to OSX 10.6 , made some minor adjustements. Time Machine is OK but always like a script.

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Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Languages

English

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop, System Administrators

Programming Language

Unix Shell

Related Categories

Unix Shell File Compression Software, Unix Shell Backup Software

Registered

2001-08-10

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