Simple Shell Backup to Drobox

README.md

Before first run

cd /home/strebel
curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/master/dropbox_uploader.sh" -o dropbox_uploader.sh
chmod 775 dropbox_uploader.sh
./dropbox_uploader.sh
``

To configure dropbox_uploader.sh, you'll need to create a Dropbox API key.

backup.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

TIME=`date +%Y%m%d`                                     # Current date (format: yyymmdd)
DELDATE=`date --date="-30 day" +%Y%m%d`                 # Current date minus 30 days. (format: yyymmdd)
FILENAME=teamspeak-backup-$TIME.tar.gz                  # The filename of the backup.
SRCDIR=/home/strebel/teamspeak                         # Location of Important Data Directory (Source of backup).
DROPBOX_UPLOADER=/home/strebel/dropbox_uploader.sh      # Dropbox Uploader Path
DROPBOX_UPLOADER_CONFIG=/home/strebel/.dropbox_uploader # Dropbox Uploader Config Path

# Tar directory
echo "Compressing \"$SRCDIR\" to \"$FILENAME\"..."
tar -cpzf -C /tmp/$FILENAME $SRCDIR .

# Upload the new file
$DROPBOX_UPLOADER -f $DROPBOX_UPLOADER_CONFIG upload /tmp/$FILENAME .


# Delete old backups
BACKUPS=$($DROPBOX_UPLOADER -f $DROPBOX_UPLOADER_CONFIG list | sed -n 's/.*\([0-9]\{8\}\)\.tar.*/\1/p')

for time in $BACKUPS; do
    if (($time <= $DELDATE))
    then
        echo "Deleting backup from date $time."

        $DROPBOX_UPLOADER -f $DROPBOX_UPLOADER_CONFIG delete teamspeak-backup-$time.tar.gz
    else
        echo "Backup from date $time isn't old enought to delete."
    fi
done

# Delete tar
rm /tmp/$FILENAME