#!/bin/sh # Perform incremental backups using rsync and hardlinks. # # Thanks to http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups_2010.html for the # idea. # Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Simon Ruderich # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . set -e if test "$#" -lt 2; then echo "Usage: $0 " >&2 echo echo "Note: The target directory is the _first_ argument!" >&2 exit 2 fi cd "$1" || exit 1 shift # Get absolute path to last backup directory. for x in backup-*; do test -d "$x" || continue dest="../$x" # relative to destination directory done target=backup-`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'` if test -d current; then echo "Target directory 'current' already exists, aborting." >&2 exit 1 fi mkdir current rsync \ --verbose --itemize-changes --human-readable \ --archive --hard-links --numeric-ids --one-file-system \ --link-dest="$dest" \ "$@" current \ || { # Try to remove "current" without changing the exit code. In case the # connection failed without transferring any files, we want the next # backup to be able to run. code=$? rmdir current 2>/dev/null || true exit $code } mv current "$target"