macke800 / rsync-backup

rsync-backup - A backup rotating shell script

rsync-backup - A backup rotating shell script

The goals of rsync-backup are

• To be able to easily backup a source path tree to multiple snapshots on destination.

• Support destinations running over SSH.

• Thanks to rsync's --link-dest feature not need more space for each snapshot.

Table of Contents

• How to use
• Examples
• How to build debian package
• Known limitations

How to use

Usage: src/rsync-backup.sh    : [-b NUM] [-r USER@SERVER] [-p PORT] <src> <dest>
       src/rsync-backup.sh    : -h|--help

Used to create backups using hard links from previous backups to optimize
storage needs.

  src:    Source path
  dest:   Destination path
  -b:     Number of backups to store before start to remove oldest
  -r:     Destination directory on remote server, will use SSH
  -p:     Set non-standard SSH port if -r is used

Examples

Local backup (maybe to NFS share) with 10 snapshots:

rsync-backup -b10 ./src /mnt/backup/target

Remote backup with 5 snapshots and alternative SSH port 2222:

rsync-backup -b5 -r [e-mail] -p2222 ./src /home/user/target

How to build debian package

Build the debian package:

make clean
make package

Package will be in build-folder.

Known limitations (things to fix)

• Destination path for remote backup need to be absolute