Hacktopia

Below is a script that I wrote to back up a bunch of files, tar them and then compress them. Why use two different programs, tar and zip, because it is the UNIX way. Use one specialty program to do one thing, and one thing very well. If you put too many features into your UNIX programs then they just grow too monstrous and unmanageable like Windows (just a example).

#!/bin/bash#Written By: BAB
#The purpose of this script is to back up all directories listed, compress the directories, encript the directories, and send them to a remote site.
#compressioin /bin/bzip2
#archiving /bin/tar
#encription /usr/bin/gpg

ZIP=/bin/bzip2
TAR=/bin/tar
ENCRYPT=/usr/bin/gpg
RM=/usr/bin/rm
DATE=`/usr/bin/date +%m/%d/%Y`

BACKUPDIRS=/home/one /home/two
BACKUPNAME=server-backup$DATE
REMOTESERVER=server.com

REMOTEUSERNAME=username

GPGNAME=my name

echo “starting backup”

echo ” AKA tar”

$TAR -cf $BACKUPNAME.tar $BACKUPDIRS

echo “Starting zip”
$ZIP -z $BACKUPNAME.tar

echo “starting encryption”
$ENCRYPT –encrypt –recipient ‘$GPGNAME’ BACKUPNAME.tar

echo “sending to remote site one”
scp FILE $REMOTEUSERNAME@REMOTESERVER:~

echo “doing cleanup”
$RM $BACKUPNAME.tar.gpg
echo “cleanup done”

echo “Backup Complete!”

#echo “Decripting the file”
#gpg –output foo.txt –decrypt foo.txt.gpg

# echo “Usage: $0 {-encript -decript}” >&2
# exit 1
# ;;
#esac

#exit 0