Bash script for opening gnome-terminals to run rsync processes for each directory separately.

backup.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
   echo "This script must be run as root" 
   exit 1
fi

mkdir -p /media/waleed/storage/backups/home/waleed
mkdir -p /media/waleed/storage/backups/www
mkdir -p /media/waleed/storage/backups/etc


gnome-terminal --tab -e 'bash -c "rsync -ahW --stats /home/waleed/ /media/waleed/storage/backups/home/waleed  --delete --delete-excluded --no-compress --progress --exclude-from=/var/tmp/ignorelist; read line"' \
--tab -e 'bash -c "rsync -ahW --stats /var/www /media/waleed/storage/backups/www --delete --delete-excluded --no-compress --progress --exclude-from=/var/tmp/ignorelist; read line"' \
--tab -e 'bash -c "rsync -ahW --stats /etc /media/waleed/storage/backups/etc --delete --delete-excluded --no-compress --progress --exclude-from=/var/tmp/ignorelist; read line"' \
--tab -e 'bash -c "/home/waleed/scripts/sql_backup.sh; read line"'


# sudo rsync -ahW --stats /home/waleed/ /media/waleed/storage/backups/home/waleed  --delete --delete-excluded --no-compress --progress --exclude-from=/var/tmp/ignorelist
# sudo rsync -ahW --stats /var/www /media/waleed/storage/backups/www --delete --delete-excluded --no-compress --progress --exclude-from=/var/tmp/ignorelist