Quick Backup CLI

Quickly copy directories to a specified location, and vice versa.

Table of Contents

• Dependencies
• Features
• Configuration

Dependencies

• grep
• sed
• cut
• trash-cli

Features

Configure

Add programs to ~/.config/quick-backup-cli/programs.csv for use with quick-backup-cli.

Backup

1. Trash (if it exists) the backup directory.
2. Make the backup directory.
3. Copy the contents of the program directory to the backup directory.

Download

1. Trash (if it exists) the program directory.
2. Make the program directory.
3. Copy the contents of the backup directory to the program directory.

Configuration

You can add programs to quick-backup-cli with the configure option when running the script, alternatively you can can create the file manually.

This is an example of a programs.csv file, located at ~/.config/quick-backup-cli/programs.csv:

Retroarch,/home/user/.config/retroarch/,/home/user/Drive/Games/Backups/Retroarch/
osu!,/home/user/.local/share/osu/,/home/user/Drive/Games/Backups/osuBackup/

Explanation of columns (each value separated by a comma):

1. The first column is the program name (only used within quick-backup-cli).
2. The second column is the path to the directory that you would like to backup.
3. The third column is the path to the backup directory.

The trailing / is required for the second and third column.