#!/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) 2011-2017 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 -eu if test "$#" -lt 2; then echo "Usage: $0 " >&2 echo echo "Note: The target directory is the _first_ argument!" >&2 exit 2 fi cd "$1" shift # Get path to last backup directory. dest=./ for x in backup-*; do test -d "$x" || continue dest="../$x" # relative to destination directory done target="backup-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S')" target_tmp="partial-$target" mkdir "$target_tmp" rsync \ --verbose --itemize-changes --human-readable \ --archive --acls --xattrs --hard-links --sparse --numeric-ids \ --one-file-system \ --link-dest="$dest" \ "$@" "$target_tmp" \ || { # Try to remove the target directory without changing the exit code. In # case the connection failed without transferring any files, we want to # remove the empty directory. code=$? rmdir "$target_tmp" 2>/dev/null || true exit $code } # --dry-run (-n) creates an empty directory. Remove it to prevent using it for # further incremental backups (which would do a full backup). rmdir "$target_tmp" 2>/dev/null && exit 0 || true mv "$target_tmp" "$target"