Make archives of stuff that's important in my home directory and recent changes

[Moderator BobC]

Of course my definition of important does matter, ie you might want different things to be considered important enough to save…

Anyway, maybe this code will be useful for others after a little tweaking. I would suggest creating the archives somewhere not on the partition you are archiving, because /media is excluded from the archive…

PS: I do not pretend to be any kind of guru on this system, so if you are and see something done poorly here, please speak up.
PSS: It wasn’t working right, took many hours to fix because tar doesn’t work the same everywhere, and excluding folders via prune on the find isn’t easy unless you have a template where its obvious if things are right or not.

#!/bin/sh

# rename this file to .sh before you try to edit it, and remember to chmod +x so you can execute it

archiveto="/media/13-Saves2/delldv9917/"
homedir="/home/bobc"
# include date in archive filename
today=<code>date '+%Y_%m_%d__%H_%M_%S'</code>;
homefilename="home_$today.tgz"
archivetofileslist="$archiveto.files.list"
allmodfilename="allmod_$today.tgz"
homeexcludes="--exclude=$homedir/Downloads --exclude=$homedir/.local/trash"

# archive all important stuff from home directory to archive directory in zipped tar file except Downloads and .cache and .local/trash

tar -zcvf $archiveto$homefilename $homeexcludes --exclude-caches-all $homedir/* 

# archive all stuff I might have changed in last 30 days from / /media/13-Saves2/delldv9917/allmod_2018_01_27.tgz

find / \( \
	-path /media -prune -o \
	-path /mnt -prune -o \
	-path /run -prune -o \
	-path /sys -prune -o \
	-path /proc -prune -o \
	-path /var -prune -o \
	-path /lib -prune -o \
 	-path /usr/lib -prune -o \
	-path /root/.cache -prune -o \
	-path /home/bobc/Downloads -prune -o \
	-path /home/bobc/.local/trash -prune -o \
	-path /home/bobc/.cache -prune \) -o -type f -mtime -30 -print > $archivetofileslist

tar -zcvf $archiveto$allmodfilename --exclude-caches-all --files-from=$archivetofileslist

• This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by BobC.
• This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by BobC.
• This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by BobC.

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1. tarzcvfbobc.rtf
2. tarzcvfbobcv2.rtf
3. tarzcvfbobcv3.rtf

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