Backup your Mac files, and ignore all the weird hidden stufft

backup.sh

#!/bin/sh                                                                                                                                        

# backup.sh
# Incrementally backup the enclosing folder

# Set this to where you want your files to get backed up to (include a trailing
#   slash). This follows the same format as ssh, but you can also use a local
#   file path here.
TARGET="[email protected]:/volume1/backups/dphiffer/"

# Copy everything in the folder where this backup script is saved
SOURCE=$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )

# Recursively copy everything, ignoring weird hidden Mac stuff
#   Also ignoring a special @eaDir folder, which my Synology NAS uses

# Note that I've omitted the options to preserve file owner/group metadata
#   (-o, -g) to make this play nice with my Synology NAS. You may want to read
#   the output of `rsync --help` and tweak the arguments to your own taste.

rsync -vrlptx --delete --ignore-errors \
      --exclude "*.DocumentRevisions-V100*" \
      --exclude "*.Spotlight-V100*" \
      --exclude "*.DS_Store" \
      --exclude "*.TemporaryItems*" \
      --exclude "*.Trashes*" \
      --exclude "*.fseventsd*" \
      --exclude "*@eaDir*" \
      "$SOURCE" "$TARGET"