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.

Using yt-dlp With Zoom And Panopto

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

If anyone uses Zoom to record or Panopto to host recordings and later wants to access the recordings, here’s a simple linux bash script to download the video file and acompanying subtitles. For a while I used zoomdl, but it is no longer under active development, and I began running into various issues about a year ago. I stumbled upon yt-dlp and found it under active development and quite extensive.

Bash on Jared Szajkowski, P.E., PMP

Simple Incremental Bash Backup Script

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Introduction

Using yt-dlp With Zoom And Panopto

Introduction