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OSX Rsync Backup to External Drive
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| src=/Users/kmorris | |
| backupPath=/Volumes/Backups/backups | |
| date=`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H%M%S"` | |
| dirname=backup_$date | |
| excludeFile=/Users/kmorris/bin/backup-excludes.txt | |
| rsync -aAXPlv --exclude-from=$excludeFile --link-dest=$backupPath/latest $src $backupPath/$dirname | |
| rm -f $backupPath/latest | |
| ln -s $backupPath/$dirname $backupPath/latest |
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