BackUp is a small script to help me create quick and dirty tar file containing backups of my file system.
I developed this script because I had a few directories in separate locations and I wanted to back them up into a single tar file.
Also because back in 2013 I was new to Git and GitHub and wanted to try these things.
-h - Display help
-b bu_file - bu_file location. Defaults to the script's directory
-o target_file - The resulting tar file. Default to the script's directory
BackUp works by reading from a file, called bu_files, which contain the files
and directories you want to store to the target tar file. The directories may
be absolute or relative.
For example, if bu_files has:
/home/someuser/Documents/
/home/someuser/Images/
local_file
local_directory
The contents of the tar file will be:
backup_2013_06_23.tar
|--Documents/
|--Images/
|--local_file
|--local_directory
The location of each file/directory is not preserve in the tar file. Because of that there can't be two files with the same name, like for example:
/dir1/file
/dir2/file
The script warns the user about this.
Entries in bu_files can be use to exclude certain directories. They should be
appended with a - like so:
-node_modules
python3 test.py