Linux backup script

This is very simple backup script with rsync.

This script take backup from remote location and stores locally (Central backup management).

Once the backup finished script notify to the user with time, date and amount of data transferred.

#!/bin/bash

emailaddress='user@example.com'

#setup local directory to store the backups

DIRECTORY=/srv/backups/

#set current date

DATE=`date '+%m-%d-%y%n'`

mkdir $DIRECTORY/$DATE

rsync --exclude-from '/tmp/exclude.txt' -avz user@remotehost.com:/tmp/backups/  $DIRECTORY/$DATE/ > /$DIRECTORY/$DATE/rsync.log

#the above line should be in a single line

tail -3 $DIRECTORY/$DATE/rsync.log |mail -s "Source Code Backup for example.com on $DATE" $emailaddress;

This script takes backup of all files and directories in /tmp/backups/ in remotehost.com

What happen if you don't want to backup some files and directories.

--exclude-from option specifies the list of files and folders to be excluded from backup.

Exclude file list can be in local host (For best practices Exclude list must be in local). In this Script I have stored exclude.txt in /tmp folder.

Sample Exclude list

somefilename.jpg

/log*

/test/test1/ab*

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