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Securely backup your $HOME to a remote machine

Posted 10-29-2011 at 07:19 PM by rouvas
SYNOPSIS

A simple and effective script to perform a secure backup of your home directory to a remote machine, with the help of sshfs and rsync. With trivial modifications it can be used to backup any directory.


FOR THE IMPATIENT

Drop this script into your path:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

#
# Specify the name of the user on the remote machine, defaults to the current user
#
REMOTE_USER=${REMOTE_USER:=$USER}
...
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