Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/sh

MAILADDR=david@xyz.de
HOSTNAME=mothership
BACKUPDIR=directory_you_want_to_backup
EXCLUDES=example_exclude_file
ARCHIVEROOT=directory_to_backup_to


# directory which holds our current datastore
CURRENT=main

# directory which we save incremental changes to
INCREMENTDIR=`date +%Y-%m-%d`

# options to pass to rsync
OPTIONS="--force --ignore-errors --delete --delete-excluded \
 --exclude-from=$EXCLUDES --backup --backup-dir=$ARCHIVEROOT/$INCREMENTDIR -av"

export PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

# make sure our backup tree exists
install -d $ARCHIVEROOT/$CURRENT

# our actual rsyncing function
do_rsync()
{
   rsync $OPTIONS $BACKUPDIR $ARCHIVEROOT/$CURRENT
}

# our post rsync accounting function
do_accounting()
{
   echo "Backup Accounting for Day $INCREMENTDIR on $HOSTNAME:">/tmp/rsync_script_tmpfile
   echo >> /tmp/rsync_script_tmpfile
   echo "################################################">>/tmp/rsync_script_tmpfile
   du -s $ARCHIVEROOT/* >> /tmp/rsync_script_tmpfile
   echo "Mail $MAILADDR -s $HOSTNAME Backup Report < /tmp/rsync_script_tmpfile"
   Mail $MAILADDR -s $HOSTNAME Backup Report < /tmp/rsync_script_tmpfile
   echo "rm /tmp/rsync_script_tmpfile"
   rm /tmp/rsync_script_tmpfile
}

# some error handling and/or run our backup and accounting
if [ -f $EXCLUDES ]; then
   if [ -d $BACKUPDIR ]; then
      # now the actual transfer
      do_rsync && do_accounting
   else
      echo "cant find $BACKUPDIR"; exit
   fi
   else
      echo "cant find $EXCLUDES"; exit
fi