Add: rsync script for incremental backups

ShellScripts/rsync-incremental-backups.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# A script to perform incremental backups using rsync
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+#readonly SOURCE_DIR="${HOME}"
+readonly SOURCE_DIR="<input folder>"
+readonly BACKUP_DIR="<output folder>"
+readonly DATETIME="$(date '+%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S')"
+readonly BACKUP_PATH="${BACKUP_DIR}/${DATETIME}"
+readonly LATEST_LINK="${BACKUP_DIR}/latest"
+
+mkdir -p "${BACKUP_DIR}"
+
+rsync -ahv --progress --stats --delete \
+  --log-file="${BACKUP_DIR}/${DATETIME}.log" \
+  --exclude=".cache" \
+  --link-dest "${LATEST_LINK}" \
+  "${SOURCE_DIR}/" \
+  "${BACKUP_PATH}"
+
+rm -rfv "${LATEST_LINK}"
+ln -s "${BACKUP_PATH}" "${LATEST_LINK}"