From 30a5e12dfe12728c1dd7b7eb455dd23919fe7305 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trey Bastian <hello@treybastian.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:21:25 +0000
Subject: added my backup scripts

---
 daily-snapshot.sh | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 daily-snapshot.sh

(limited to 'daily-snapshot.sh')

diff --git a/daily-snapshot.sh b/daily-snapshot.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cb8e0b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/daily-snapshot.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# This script will gzip /mnt/backup/live/ 
+# This script assumes /mnt/backup/snapshots/ is where we want to store archives 
+# This script will only keep 7 days worth of archives
+#   -- if you want to change this just change `MAX_BACKUPS` 
+#
+# My personal setup:
+#   -- has this running daily with cron at 00:30z
+#   -- mounts /mnt/backup to it's own specific NFS share configured for the host
+# 
+
+MAX_BACKUPS=7
+
+tar -czf "/mnt/backup/snapshots/gwaine.snapshot.`date + "%FT%H%M%S"`.tar.gz" -C /mnt/backup/live .
+
+COUNT=$(ls -1 /mnt/backup/snapshots/*.tar.gz 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
+
+if [ "$COUNT" -gt $MAX_BACKUPS]; then
+  # why not just delete the oldest file only Trey???
+  # well I'll tell you why! If I want to change MAX_BACKUPS from 7 to 3
+  # I'll have a whole bunch of extra archives I don't want to keep
+  EXTRA=$((COUNT - MAX_BACKUPS))
+  ls -1T /mnt/backup/snapshots/*.tar.gz | tail -n "$EXTRA" | xargs rm -f
+fi
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