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.

Arch Linux Install

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:01 +0000

Introduction

This is the basic framework that I use to install Arch Linux, with a few changes catered to the Lenovo ThinkPad E15 Gen 2. I have found that this is a decent mid range laptop, excellent linux compatibility, great keyboard, and overall provides a good value.

Getting started

This tutorial assumes the following:

You are booting from a USB drive with the Arch install ISO.
Wireless or wired network is detected and drivers are configured automatically.
You want drive encrytion on your root partition, but not on your boot/efi/swap partitions.

Verify UEFI boot mode

The following command should show directory without error:

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Simple Incremental Bash Backup Script

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Introduction

Arch Linux Install

Introduction

Getting started

Verify UEFI boot mode