Simple Incremental Bash Backup Script

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:00:01 +0000

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Update 4/12/2025: Revised script to accomodate a list of excluded directories.

Introduction

While there are numerous backup solutions available for Linux, many require extensive configuration and maintenance, and restoring from the backup is not always simple. Incremental backups are ideal because they maintain snapshots of the files and allow for access to previous versions of files.

Linux Journal recently published an article on various backup solutions, and I thought I’d provide my incremental backup script that uses rsync and cp.

Backup on Jared Szajkowski, P.E., PMP

Simple Incremental Bash Backup Script

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Introduction