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Bash: File Server Hourly Backup Script
Posted: 11 May 2016, 3:04am - Wednesday

Been creating bash backup scripts but every time I create for the new server, I forgot the commands and research again. This time, I'm gonna save it in my blog so that I will search it in one place. Hehehe... 

#!/bin/bash

cd /backup/

DATE=$(date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
BACKUPNAME="jdrive_$DATE"

mkdir $BACKUPNAME

# find -mtime -1 | xargs cp -t --parents "$BACKUPNAME/"

find /jdrive/ -mmin -60 -exec cp --parents '{}' "$BACKUPNAME/" \;

tar -zcvf "ibackup/$BACKUPNAME.tar.gz" "$BACKUPNAME/"

rm -rf "$BACKUPNAME/"

# file and delete all files smaller than the specified filesize
find /backup/ibackup/ -name "*.gz" -size -500 -delete

# file and delete all files that are older than 45 days
find /backup/ibackup/ -mtime +45 -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;
Here you go... My home-brewed incremental backup script. We usually use duplicity but it failed us twice. So, we are using now both my home-brewed script and duplicity. Oh! by the way,  I used this script for our file server only.

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