Simple Backup is a shell script to create basic backups using tar, find, grep, sed, and bash. It works by using a file that contains the folders to be backed up and a file that contains expressions to exclude certain folders/files.
The utilities used are found on almost all *nix distributions.
Features
- Uses standard unix commands available on almost all unix distributions
- Can be run from cron
- KISS designed
Requirements
- Grep
- Bash
- sed
- Tar (depending on your version of tar you may need to change a flag in the script)
- Find