Simple Backup Script

Super very and small backup script to use. You can use it to backup to your website or custom directories to a remote system. Make sure you have mounted one of your backup solutions.

# In this case I use a NAS (SMB) for backups, I normally have it premounted, but if you don't, mount first 
$ sudo mount -t cifs //<IP address>/mount /mnt/point -o username=username,password=password,version=<1,2,3> 

# Or an external disk 
$ sudo mount /dev/sd(X) /mnt/point

Backup to:

– External backup drive
– SMB share
– GDrive
– Dropbox
– Etc

#!/bin/bash 

# Set backup path (remote host) 
$ bkp="/path/to/backups/filename" 

# Set backup source 
$ site="/path/to/source/" 

# Set archive name inc date, %F = full date (2022-01-01) %H = hours, %M = minutes, %S = seconds 
$ arch="stwl-`date +%F_%H:%M:%S`-.tar.gz" 

# Create backup 
$ tar -cvzf $bkp/$arch $site

Mark the script executable:

$ chmod +x your_script.sh

Run it manually or use Crontab for scheduled runs.