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# Rsync time backup
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Time Machine style backup with rsync. Should work on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows with Cygwin.
# Installation
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git clone https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup
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# Usage
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rsync_tmbackup.sh < source > < destination > [excluded-pattern-path]
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## Examples
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* Backup the home folder to backup_drive
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rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup_drive
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* Backup with exclusion list:
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rsync_tmbackup.sh /home /mnt/backup_drive excluded_patterns.txt
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## Exclude file
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An optional exclude file can be provided as a third parameter. It should be compabible with the `--exclude-from` parameter of rsync. See [this tutorial] (https://sites.google.com/site/rsync2u/home/rsync-tutorial/the-exclude-from-option) for more information.
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# Features
* Each backup is on its own folder named after the current timestamp. Files can be copied and restored directly, without any intermediate tool.
* Files that haven't changed from one backup to the next are hard-linked to the previous backup so take very little extra space.
* Safety check - the backup will only happen if the destination has explicitely been marked as a backup destination.
* Resume feature - if a backup has failed or was interrupted, the tool will resume from there on the next backup.
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* Exclude file - support for pattern-based exclusion via the `--exclude-from` rsync parameter.
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* The application is one bash script that can be easily edited.
# TODO
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* Manage the backups in a way similar to Time Machine - hourly backups for the past 24 hours; daily backups for the past month; weekly backups for the previous months.
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* Other minor changes (see TODO comments in the source).
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# LICENSE
[MIT ](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT )
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