Backup script

backup.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Sichert die Dateien auf host

DIR="tmp"

if [ -d $DIR ]; then
	cd $DIR
else
	mkdir $DIR
	cd $DIR
fi

NOW=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M")
BACKUPFILE="backup_$NOW.tar.bz2"

rsync -avzP -e ssh user@host:/ .
tar -vcjf $BACKUPFILE ./

mv $BACKUPFILE ../
cd ..
rm -rf $DIR

This little backup script saves all data of the server host to an archive named backup_YYYY-MM-DD_hh-mm.tar.bz2. Simple as it could be.

You must enable SSH access to the server before running this script. Ensure you can ssh user@host.