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backup_laptop.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Setting this, so the repo does not need to be given on the commandline:
export BORG_REPO=username@server:/mnt/main/resource/username/backup_store/borg_laptop
# check:
# borg list
# See the section "Passphrase notes" for more infos.
# export BORG_PASSPHRASE='password'
# some helpers and error handling:
info() { printf "\n%s %s\n\n" "$( date )" "$*" >&2; }
trap 'echo $( date ) Backup interrupted >&2; exit 2' INT TERM
info "Starting backup"
# Backup the most important directories into an archive named after
# the machine this script is currently running on:
borg create \
--progress \
--verbose \
--list \
--stats \
--show-rc \
--exclude-caches \
--exclude "/home/username/data/VirtualBox VMs" \
--exclude "/home/username/data/video" \
\
::'{hostname}-{now}' \
/home/username/data
# --filter AME \
# --compression lz4 \
backup_exit=$?
info "Pruning repository"
# Use the `prune` subcommand to maintain 7 daily, 4 weekly and 6 monthly
# archives of THIS machine. The '{hostname}-' prefix is very important to
# limit prune's operation to this machine's archives and not apply to
# other machines' archives also:
borg prune \
--list \
--prefix '{hostname}-' \
--show-rc \
--keep-daily 7 \
--keep-weekly 4 \
--keep-monthly 6 \
prune_exit=$?
# use highest exit code as global exit code
global_exit=$(( backup_exit > prune_exit ? backup_exit : prune_exit ))
if [ ${global_exit} -eq 0 ]; then
info "Backup and Prune finished successfully"
elif [ ${global_exit} -eq 1 ]; then
info "Backup and/or Prune finished with warnings"
else
info "Backup and/or Prune finished with errors"
fi
exit ${global_exit}
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