Plex Media Backup Script - Using Rsync

#!/bin/bash 

# USER AND TARGET DIRECTORY
user=youruser
backups=/your/chosen/backup/directory/plex_backups

# SOURCE DIRECTORY FOR BACKUP
SOURCE_DIR='/your/source/directory'

if [[ $EUID > 0 ]] 
then echo "Please run as root" 
exit 
fi 

# if there is no backups directory then create it 
if [ ! -d $backups ] 
then 
mkdir $backups 
chown $user:$user $backups 
fi

# Rsync
echo "Backing up $SOURCE_DIR...
rsync -v $SOURCE_DIR $backups

EOF