simple-backup

A very very simple (under 30 LoC) backup and restore tool written in pure Bash

Usage

• link executables to your bin path

• update the config cp sample.mbackup.conf mbackup.conf

• place the config in a clean git directory

• run mbackup

  • looks for a config file in current working directory,
  • parses the config
  • copy each file/dir of config path to ./data

• run ./mrestore

  • looks for a ./config file in current working directory,
  • parses the config
  • restore each entry if exists in ./data

Sample Config

# AWM
/home/meta/.config/awesome/rc.lua
/home/meta/.config/awesome/mtheme.lua
/home/meta/.config/awesome/mlib

# Kitty
/home/meta/.config/kitty

# Tmux
/home/meta/.config/tmux

# Alacritty
/home/meta/.config/alacritty

How does it works

• It parses the config for paths
• Copy the path directory/file to ./data with all slashes replaced with _

For example path of /home/meta/tmp/js will go to ./m.dotfiles/data/_home_meta_tmp_js