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encrypted-home-backups

Automated home backups, onto an encrypted partition

git clone https://github.com/equwal/encrypted-home-backups

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commit 7c171848cb4d360aebcc5fb4ba344229285a341a
Spenser Truex <spensertruexonline@gmail.com>
2019-04-02 15:48:30 -0700

Stored uncompressed for faster backup times.

 backup.pl | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/backup.pl b/backup.pl
index d7cda2b..9718781 100755
--- a/backup.pl
+++ b/backup.pl
@@ -23,5 +23,7 @@ my $mapper = "/dev/mapper/$last_half";
 `mkdir -p $mount`;
 `mount /dev/mapper/$last_half $mount`;
 # Do a home-only backup
-my $bname = `date`;
-`tar -cjf '$mount/backup-$bname.tar.bz2' /home/$user`;
+my $date = `date`;
+my $fname = "$mount/backup-$date";
+`mkdir '$fname'`;
+`cp -a /home/$user '$fname'`;