backuprotater

Bash Script to backup a folder to a zip, keeping a specificed number of copies.

Useage

Backup source folder to destination folder:

backuprotater.sh "/sourcefolder" "/destination"

This has a default rotate count of 10 files. If it finds more than 10 files in /destination folder it will delete the oldest files until there are only 10 in total. Note: The script keeps a latest.zip file for quick finding of the latest version. This is included in the rotation count. (i.e. you will have 9 unique backups,plus the latest as a duplicate)

Specifing rotation count

Use the -p option to specify a differnt rotation count:

backuprotater.sh -p 15 "/sourcefolder" "/destination"

This will keep a max of 15 files in the destination.

Credits

Based of a script from 'Tony B'.