3 # Perform incremental backups using rsync and hardlinks.
5 # Thanks to http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups_2010.html for the
8 # Copyright (C) 2011-2017 Simon Ruderich
10 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
11 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
12 # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
13 # (at your option) any later version.
15 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
16 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
17 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
18 # GNU General Public License for more details.
20 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
21 # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
26 if test "$#" -lt 2; then
27 echo "Usage: $0 <backups-directory> <arguments to rsync>" >&2
29 echo "Note: The target directory is the _first_ argument!" >&2
37 # Get path to last backup directory.
40 test -d "$x" || continue
41 dest="../$x" # relative to destination directory
44 target="backup-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S')"
45 target_tmp="partial-$target"
49 --verbose --itemize-changes --human-readable \
50 --archive --acls --xattrs --hard-links --sparse --numeric-ids \
55 # Try to remove the target directory without changing the exit code. In
56 # case the connection failed without transferring any files, we want to
57 # remove the empty directory.
59 rmdir "$target_tmp" 2>/dev/null || true
62 # --dry-run (-n) creates an empty directory. Remove it to prevent using it for
63 # further incremental backups (which would do a full backup).
64 rmdir "$target_tmp" 2>/dev/null && exit 0 || true
66 mv "$target_tmp" "$target"