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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Want to backup dirs on application start and close. Post 302965145 by sea on Sunday 24th of January 2016 06:52:59 AM
Old 01-24-2016
Heya

Create (if not exists yet): $HOME/bin
Save the following as $HOME/bin/myardour4
Obvously you should change the DIR_* variables to match your needs.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#
#	Variables
#
	DIR_BASE=~/tmp		# Directory holding the content to save
	DIR_BKUP=./tester	# Directory to be saved
	DIR_TRGT=~/backups	# Directory to store the tarball
	NOW=$(date +'%F_%T'|sed s,":",".",g)	# Prepare string: YYYY-MM-DD_HH.MM.SS
#
#	Functions
#
	backup_dir() { # LABEL
	# Creates a tarball using with leading data-time and closing 'LABEL'
	# For label, should provide either 'beginn' or 'end'
		[ -z "$1" ] && return 1
		pushd "$DIR_BASE"
		tar -acf "$DIR_TRGT/${DIR_BKUP##*/}-$NOW-$1.tar.gz" "$DIR_BKUP"
		popd
	}
#
#	Action
#
	backup_dir beginn
	ardour4
	backup_dir end

Make it executable:
Code:
chmod +x $HOME/bin/myardour4

Open a terminal window and type:
Code:
myardour4

Hope this helps
 

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svn-fast-backup

svn-fast-backup(1)					      General Commands Manual						svn-fast-backup(1)

NAME

       svn-fast-backup - very fast backup for Subversion fsfs repositories.

SYNOPSIS

       svn-fast-backup [-q] [-k{N|all}] [-f] [-t] [-s] repos_path backup_dir

DESCRIPTION

       svn-fast-backup uses rsync snapshots for very fast backup of a Subversion fsfs repository at repos_path to backup_dir/repos-rev, the latest
       revision number in the repository.  Multiple fsfs backups share data via hardlinks, so old backups are almost free, since a newer  revision
       of a repository is almost a complete superset of an older revision.

       This  is  good for replacing incremental log-dump+restore-style backups because it is just as space-conserving and even faster; there is no
       inter-backup state (old backups are essentially caches); each backup directory is self-contained.  It has the same  command-line  interface
       as svn-hot-backup(1) (if you use --force), but only works for fsfs repositories.

       svn-fast-backup keeps 64 backups by default and deletes backups older than these; this can be adjusted with the -k option.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Shows some brief help text.

       -q, --quiet
	      Quieter-than-usual operation.

       -k, --keep=N
	      Keep a specified number of backups; the default is to keep 64.

       -k, --keep=all
	      Do not delete any old backups at all.

       -f, --force
	      Make a new backup even if one with the current revision exists.

       -t, --trace
	      Show actions.

       -s, --simulate
	      Don't perform actions.

AUTHOR

       Voluntary contributions made by many individuals.  Copyright (C) 2006 CollabNet.

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