https://blog.planethawleywood.com/tags/script/Recent content in Script on Planet HawleywoodHugoen-usSun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.planethawleywood.com/posts/generic-directory-backup-script/Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.planethawleywood.com/posts/generic-directory-backup-script/<p>I regularly have directories of files I want to back up in case of disaster. Usually these are files that change often, and I only want to keep recent versions in case I want to revert or recover changes. (Git? Git, who?)</p> <p>I have used this script over and over as a simple way to archive a directory to a location with a date-stamped filename. It also cleans up after itself by deleting files older than X days. I stick it in CRON and let it run on a schedule and I always have an archive of the last X days of the files in my directory.</p>