Konfekt / backup2usb.sh

shell scripts to backup the home (and root) folder to a USB device via either rsync, borg, fsarchiver or system-tar-and-restore

These simple (POSIX compliant for UNIX based operating systems, such as Linux, Free BSD and MacOS) shell scripts

• back up all files and folders inside the $HOME folder and root directory /
• except those listed with --exclude

via rsync, borg, fsarchiver or system-tar-and-restore to a USB drive with an NTFS file system.

Installation

1. Clone this repository, for example into ~/Downloads

   cd ~/Downloads/
   git clone https://github.com/konfekt/backup2usb.sh

2. Copy borg2usb.sh sync2usb.sh, archive2usb.sh or system2usb.sh into a convenient folder, for example, ~/bin

   cp ~/Downloads/sync2usb.sh/sync2usb.sh ~/bin/

   For system2usb.sh, an additional config file BackupRoot2USB.conf is needed that is assumed to sit inside ~/.config/backups/usb/, therefore

   cp --recursive ~/Downloads/sync2usb.sh/backups/ ~/.config/

3. Inside sync2usb.sh, archive2usb.sh or system2usb.sh, replace

   • KONFEKT by your user name to log in to the rsync server
   • USB_LABEL by the label of your NTFS drive, and
   • the files and folders excluded by --exclude ... by those that suit you!

Suggestions

The scripts assume that the backup files go into $HOSTNAME/{rsync,fsarchiver,system-tar-and-restore} on your USB drive (where $HOSTNAME is the name of the computer). If you prefer another path, then please adapt accordingly.

Place (some of) the scripts into /etc/cron.weekly/ for a weekly backup.