A Bash script to generate a tar.gz backup file of a folder, with an option to automatically upload the backup file to a cloud service using rclone, and remove local copy afterwards.

List of cloud/storage providers currently supported by rclone can be found here.

• tar
• rclone (needs to be configured)

Configuration can be set on the script itself, under the "Configuration" section, to run the script without any argument,
or using command-line arguments (which will override configuration set on on the script).

Usage: backup [-n <name>] [-s <path>] [-u <path>] [-r] <path-to-backup>

Options:
  -n <name>  Sets the tar.gz file name [default: "backup"]
  -s <path>  Path to which the generated backup file will be saved to [default: current working directory]
  -u <path>  Rclone path to which the backup file will be uploaded to (not providing one will skip the upload process)
  -r         Remove local copy of backup file after it's been uploaded

Commands:
  -h         Displays this help and exists.

Examples:
  backup "/home/user/important_stuff"
  backup -n "important-stuff-backup" -s "/home/user/backups" -u "GDrive:/Backups" -r "/home/user/important_stuff/"

• Add an option to restore a backup.
• Add option to customize date format on backup's file name.
• Add option to exclude files from backup using tar's --exclude= argument.
• Add '-v' option to show tar and rclone outputs.
• Add '-l' option to save a log file.
• Add a scheduled backups setup guide using cron and systemd to README.md.