System backup 2

The 1st script below is for creating a backup archive of a running linux system using fsarchiver.
While the 2nd is for creating a backup archive of user's home.

See my System backup page for more info.

1. backup system
(name it bkpsys-fs for example)

#!/bin/bash LOC=/media/Bkp/zsysbkp NAME=sys-archive TIME=_`date +"%y%m%d-%R"` CMT="after upgrade" CMT="_${CMT// /_}" excludes=("/proc/*" "/media/*" "/dev/*" "/mnt/*" "/sys/*" "/tmp/*" "/var/cache/apt/archives/*" "$HOME") X=( "${excludes[@]/#/--exclude=}" ) sudo fsarchiver savefs -Avo -j 14 -Z 20 $LOC/$NAME$TIME$CMT.fsa /dev/nvme0n1p1 "${X[@]}"  

2. backup home
(name it bkphome-fs for example)

For home backup, we target the user directory...

#!/bin/bash LOC=/media/Bkp/zsysbkp NAME=home-archive TIME=_`date +"%y%m%d-%R"` CMT="after upgrade" CMT="_${CMT// /_}" excludes=("Documents/*" "Downloads/*" "Website/*" "Games/*" "Mail/*" "Music/*" "Pictures/*" "Sync/*" "Video/*" ".bcast5/indexes/*" ".cache/*" ".cache/ranger/*" ".local/share/Trash/*" ".Trash-1000/*" ".thumbnails/*" ".sword/*") X=( "${excludes[@]/#/--exclude=/home/$USER/}" ) sudo fsarchiver savedir -Avo -j 14 -Z 20 $LOC/$NAME$TIME$CMT.fsa /home/$USER "${X[@]}"  

fsarchiver needs the full path rather than the relative paths of dir's in the target dir, therefore /home/$USER/"$x" in the array.
It also insists on running as super user all the time even with `savedir` on directories with user permissions.