Backup your backups!

This script makes copies of files on one partition and moves them to another. This is useful for making an additional copy of files you have backed up. Storing your second backup seperately from your primary backup makes it harder for you to lose your data.

Defaults

By default the source location is /media/$USER/primary/ and the destination is /media/$USER/secondary/. You can change the names of the partitions or choose a drive at a different location, like /mnt, by changing the sourcePartition and destinationPartition variables in the script.

This script ignores directories and hidden files. See exclude.dat for details and to exclude more files.

Set up

• This script requires rsync to move files and check for duplicates.
• Before running the script, make sure the source and destination locations are accessable.
• Run backup.sh everytime you want to backup.

Verify your backup

Once the script has finished, check:

cd /media/$USER/secondary/
ls -a

The output should be the list of files from the original backup.