Today I had the task of updating my backup system, for a long time I didn’t bother rolling backups because, well I just didn’t care. However I now wanted to set something up. I remembered long ago that I had done this before, based on the excellent, albeit dated write up from Mike Rubel. After some hacking I rewrote his script to make it a bit more useful in my environment. The script now accepts a single argument, which points to a configuration file. To download the initial version of this tool I called ‘snapshots’ click on the link below.

snapshots.tar.gz