Backup Script based on rdiff-backup

rdiff-backup.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Specify the directory which has to be backed up
src="/home/user/"

# Specify the directory to place the backup
dst="rdiff_user@servername::remote_path"

# Specify a file which defines the direcories or files to be EXCLUDED
# from backup
excl=/root/rdiff-excl.txt

##########################################################################

# Define some variables
srv=$(echo $dst | grep -oP "\@\K([^:]+)")
rdiff_bin="/usr/bin/rdiff-backup"
rdiff_opts="--exclude-special-files --exclude-other-filesystems"

# If server is present, perform backup
ping -c 1 $srv > /dev/null 2>&1

if [ $?==0 ];
then
  echo "Host $srv available. Perform backup ..."
  $rdiff_bin $rdiff_opts --exclude-globbing-filelist $excl $src $dst
else
  echo "Host $srv not available. Bye!"
fi

exit 0