An easy to use tool to make signed backups which are timestamped
Features:
- creates a timestamped gzipped tar file with all backedup data
- Has a progress bar (thnx to rsync)
- Creates signed backups to check for tampering
- A very small and simple script (easy to edit/tweak)
How to use:
- To install type this line in commandline
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/teito-dev/bcktousb/releases/install.sh | bashDependencies:
- bash
- rsync
- gpg2
- tar
How to tweak:
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Has config files under .config/bcktousb
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If installed first time, run the bcktousb command once and it will init the config files for you under your user's .config directory
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It has 3 files for now tracklist,excludelist,bcktousb_config tracklist: has all the files and folder names that you want to backup
excludelist: has all the files and folder names that you explicitly dont want to track
bcktousb_config: has all the config variables that you can tweak to your liking
Todo:
- Write an install script to make it easier to setup
- Make it easier to use
- Add examples for people to understand how it looks
- Enable extension scripts to be chained to bcktousb
- Allow an option to encrypt backups
- Allow an option to directly send the backup to specific backends
- Add man docs
- Support incremental backups
- Support seamless restoration
- Make backup script cleaner to tweak , using functions