BackItUp¶ ↑

Simple tool to easily configure the files and directories to copy to a local zip file and FTP (optional) to a remote host.

Add GitHub to your gem sources if you haven’t already:

$ sudo gem sources -a gems.github.com Install the gem:

$ sudo gem install robinsp-backitup This should have installed the backitup command. Running

$ backitup …should print the usage instructions if everything is set up ok.

Create a backup script looking something like this

# sample.backitup backup do file ‘/home/robin/backup.this.file’ dir “~/Desktop/drop-in-me-for-backup” destination_file “/tmp/backupfile”

ftp ‘host.domain.com’, ‘username’, ‘password’, :remote_dir => ‘backups’ end

Run backitup with your script file as argument

$ backitup sample.backitup