Initial commit of local rsync backup script

local_backup.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+#Script to back up /home/tracey to external USB drive
+#http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/rsync-backup.html
+date=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
+mount_point='/media/tracey/Backup'
+log_file='/home/tracey/$date'
+
+echo "#####"
+echo ""
+# Check whether target volume is mounted, and mount it if not.
+if ! mountpoint -q ${mount_point}/; then
+	echo "Mounting the external USB drive."
+	echo "Mountpoint is ${mount_point}"
+	if ! mount ${mount_point}; then
+		echo "An error code was returned by mount command!"
+		exit 5
+	else echo "Mounted successfully.";
+	fi
+else echo "${mount_point} is already mounted.";
+fi
+# Target volume **must** be mounted by this point. If not, die screaming.
+if ! mountpoint -q ${mount_point}/; then
+	echo "Mounting failed! Cannot run backup without backup volume!"
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Preparing to transfer differences in home directory to backup USB drive using rsync."
+
+rsync -avzh --exclude '.cache' --exclude 'Videos' --exclude 'Nextloud' --exclude 'Downloads/isos' --exclude 'VirtualBox VMs' --exclude 'Sync' --exclude 'Downloads/torrents' --exclude '.local/share/Steam' --exclude 'Music' --progress --delete /home/tracey/Documents /media/tracey/Backup/tracey/Documents/ 2>&1 | tee /home/tracey/rsync-output.txt
+
+echo ""
+echo "Backup Complete"
+echo "Log of this backup is in "
+echo ""
+echo "####"