A nice backup script fork. Forked from http://code.google.com/p/kamila-various-stuff/

backup.sh

#!/bin/bash

# incrementally backup $HOME using rsync

SOURCE="$HOME/"
DEST="/media/Dragis_HDD/homebackup/"
KEEP=5 # how many backups besides the current one should be kept
EXCLUDEFROM="$SOURCE/.backup_excludes"
NICENESS=10
LOGFILE="$DEST/.lastbackup.log"

RSYNC_OPTS="-rltHh"
if [[ $1 != '-q' ]]; then
        RSYNC_OPTS="--verbose $RSYNC_OPTS"
fi


if [[ -d "$DEST" ]]; then
        [[ $1 != '-q' ]] && echo "Backing up $SOURCE to $DEST..."

        # remove oldest backup if necessary
        if [[ `ls -d -1 $DEST/backup-* | wc -l` > $KEEP ]]; then
                [[ $1 != '-q' ]] && echo "Removing stale stuff..."
                rm -rf `ls -d -1 $DEST/backup-* | sort -n | head -n1`;
        fi

        rm -f $DEST/current # <- symlink to the newest backup

        NEWEST="`ls -d -1 $DEST/backup-* | sort -n | tail -n1`"
        CURRENT="$DEST/backup-`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M`/"

        nice -n $NICENESS rsync $RSYNC_OPTS --delete --delete-excluded \
        --exclude-from=$EXCLUDEFROM --exclude='.*' --progress \
        --numeric-ids --link-dest=$NEWEST $SOURCE $CURRENT 2> $LOGFILE

        if [ -s $LOGFILE ]; then
                echo "Backup of $SOURCE did not finish successfully. Review the \
log file (${LOGFILE}) to see what went wrong." >&2
                echo "Deleting this partial backup in 5 seconds... Press \
Ctrl-C to abort." >&2
                for i in `seq 5 -1 1`; do
                        echo -n "$i " >&2
                        sleep 1
                done
                echo >&2 # a happy newline
                rm -rf $CURRENT
                exit 127
        else
                ln -s $CURRENT $DEST/current
                [[ $1 != '-q' ]] && echo "Backup of $SOURCE finished! Woohoo!"
        fi

        # also sync music between home and disk if not included in this backup
        [[ -n `cat $EXCLUDEFROM | grep '\<Music\>'` ]] && syncmusic.sh $1
else
        echo "A backup was scheduled, but $DEST was not found. Please insert the \
disk and run `basename $0`." >&2
        exit 1
fi