gavinlyonsrepo / backupmenu

Overview

• Name: backupmenu
• Title : Backup Menu TUI
• Description: Backup menu TUI for Debian based Linux distributions using dd, cp, Tar and rsync. Written in bash, CLI program.
• Author : Gavin Lyons
• Communication : github site or [email protected]
• History : See changelog.md in documentation section for version control history
• Copyright : Copyright (C) 2018 Gavin Lyons, See LICENSE.md in documentation section
• Upstream repository: https://github.com/gavinlyonsrepo/backupmenu.

Table of contents

• Overview
• Table of contents
• Installation
• Usage
• Files and setup
• Features

Installation

Two methods.

1. Install by PPA

A Personal Package Archives (PPA) has been created on Ubuntu package building and hosting section of launchpad site called backupmenu. Package built on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) 64bit

To install this on your system run commands in terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:typematrix/backupmenu
sudo apt update
sudo apt install backupmenu

OR

2. Install by makefile

Download latest fixed release and run the makefile as per terminal commands below for version 2.1 latest release at time of writing. The disadvantage of this method is you will not be informed of any updates.

curl -sL https://github.com/gavinlyonsrepo/backupmenu/archive/2.1.tar.gz | tar xz
cd backupmenu-2.1
sudo make install

Usage

type in terminal:

backupmenu

Type "backupmenu" in a terminal to run or select the icon. The program installs an icon in system application menus under system.

Files and setup

Config file: The user must create the config file. "DESTX" is the path for backups.(where X is 1 , 2 ,3 ) "rsyncsource" and "rsyncdest" provide the source and destination paths for rsync option in backup menu. The config file can be edited from a main menu option.

backupmenu.cfg file setup example: Just copy and paste this into file and change paths for your setup. alternatively a config file template with dummy values is in documentation folder of the repository.

DEST1="/run/media/$USER/Linux_backup/"

DEST2="/run/media/$USER/iomega_320/"

DEST3="/tmp/"

rsyncsource="$HOME/"

rsyncDest="/run/media/$USER/Linux_backup/foo"

EDITOR "nano" is used as default text editor for editing config files IF $EDITOR user environment variable is not set.

$EDITOR

Features

• System backup

  1. Destination path as defined in config file or custom path
  2. Make copy of MBR or GPT primary partition with dd
  3. Make a copy of etc dir using cp
  4. Make a copy of home dir using cp
  5. Make copy of package lists.(see below)
  6. Make tarball of entire file system except tmp dev proc sys run
  7. Options 2-6 combined
  8. Custom Source directory for tarball
  9. Rsync backup option selected from main menu

Package Lists

Commands used by index number in table:

1. dpkg --list | grep ^i
2. apt-mark showmanual
3. deborphan
4. apt-cache stats
5. aptitude search '~N'
6. deborphan -anp1
7. apt-mark showauto
8. apt-cache policy
9. cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list | grep -v "^#"
10. aptitude search "~i" --display-format "%p %I" --sort installsize
11. grep installed /var/log/dpkg.log
12. grep " install " /var/log/dpkg.log