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Quick script for making incremental backups of a keepass database. Combine with Google Drive (or similar) for syncing across devices...
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backup-keepass.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Cron job
# 15 10 * * * /Users/<username>/bin/backup-passwords
# may need some hacks to get crontab running on OSX
DIR="$HOME/GoogleDrive/passwords"
PASSWDF="$DIR/passwords2.kdbx"
BACKUPF="$DIR/passwords2-"$(date "+%Y%m%d")".kdbx"
if [ ! -e "$PASSWDF" ]
then
>2& echo "$PASSWDF not found"
exit
fi
LASTBKF=$(ls -r $DIR/passwords2-????????.kdbx | head -1)
DIFF=`diff $PASSWDF $LASTBKF`
if [ "$DIFF" != "" ]
then
cp "$PASSWDF" "$BACKUPF"
fi
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harryf commented Jan 20, 2020

Gives you files in the $HOME/GoogleDrive/passwords directory like this, where passwords2.kdbx is the active database

$ ls -t1
passwords2-20200110.kdbx
passwords2.kdbx
passwords2-20191220.kdbx
passwords2-20191216.kdbx
passwords2-20191206.kdbx
passwords2-20191203.kdbx

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