I want to make a script or scripts to auto backup but have no experience making any scripts and would appreciate any help or input. Some outlines
script -Make a backup of my Main folder in another folder in my home directory named Backups every 6 hours and keep only 12 backups at a time(3 days). Each backup is timestamped with data and time along with name Main
-Make a backup of my Main folder to my internal hard drive every 6 hours and keep only 12 backups at a time((3 days). Each backup is timestamped with data and time along with name Main
-Take the latest backup folder and create an encrypted tar file from it.Use rclone to upload the tar file to my google drive every 3 days.Each backup is timestamped with data and time along with name Main
Optional -Configure some kind of notification system to inform me to make an offline backup to my external hard drive/USB thumb drive once a week(it would be nice if can i sync the notifications between my PC and Android phone but not sure if that’s possible)
-Is there a way to do incremental backups for the first two backups
Software i know of -rclone(i use it manually upload my encrypted backups to my google drive)
-BorgBackup(the one in Linux mint repo is outdated thought 1.2.8v instead of 1.4v)
-rsync
-FreeFileSync
-duplicity(also outdated 2.1.4v instead of 3.0.4)
If you don’t want to deal with making your own script I highly recommend Backrest, it handles everything you listed for you using Restic.