Tool Usage:

• Put bkup.list to your $HOME, and add directories into it.
• Edit backup.scr for remote PC login, IP and directory
• Manual run backup.scr and cleanup.scr, verify backup successful
• Install backup.scr and cleanup.scr to be your cronjob

Tool description:

The bash scripts will do backup for specified directories/files on Linux server to a remote PC or server.
It is designed to work as a cronjob.

Source files:

These sources should be put into your installation directory.

• backup.scr:
  Backup script, will read bkup.list and do all the backup work. Can be added to cron jobs by "crontab -e".
• bkup.list:
  All directories/files to be backup'ed need to be specified in this file.
• cleanup.scr:
  Clean up old backup files (more than 30 days) in directory specified by step-1. Can be added to cron jobs
  by "crontab -e".

Output files:

*<date>.tar.gz file will be created with containing all backup files/directories. It can be stored in
two places as mentioned above: step-1 directory or/and step-2 Disk.

Logging:

Log will be stored at the directory specified by step-1, named as backup.log

Debugging:

In the directory specified by step-1, run the following command:
touch .debug_backup
Debugging information will be saved to backup.log once the cron job got invoked.

To-do items:

• Remote directory disk monitoring and notification