difbk

Command line differential backup tool made by 100% shell script.

It's a differential backup tool, which have ritch feature: backup, fullbackup, search, grep, diff, restore, clean up.

Pros

• Ritch feature
• use filesystem itself (when you want to complement the function, you can use shell command very easily, you can easily transfer data to other pc or file system)
• Since it is compressed and save, saves data (gzip type)
• It form golden combination with git (when your project is too security sensitive to use git, file transfer other branch, and you have half-finished but important edits)

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • For Ubuntu or Debian or Wsl
• Upgrading
  • Upgrading for Ubuntu or Debian or Wsl
• Demo
• Usage
  • Buckup
  • Status
  • Reset
  • List backup files
  • Search
    • Path search
    • contents search
  • Status diff
  • Diff
  • Restore
    • All buckup files restore
    • One buckup file restore
  • Clean
    • Validate backup list file
    • Delete specify backup generation
  • Merge

Installation

For Ubuntu or Debian or Wsl

• Support Ubuntu20.04+

git clone https://github.com/kitamura-take/difbk.git ~/.difbk
cd ~/.difbk/install
bash install.sh l

Upgrading.

Upgrading for Ubuntu or Debian

1. delete $HOME/.difbk directory
2. same as installation.

Usage

Buckup

It mean diffrencial backup

1. type bellow command

difbk bk -d "{backup description}"

2. If label stamp exist, select and type esc

• back up option

  option	set value	comment
  -d	string	backup'e description
  -dn	no	no set backup'e description
  -mklabel	string	label stamp attached to the beginning of the description (ex label -> [label] ~ )
  -rmlabel	string	remove registerd label
  -lslabel	no	list registerd labels
  -ln	no	when backup, not add label stamp

Status

It mean confirm status

1. type bellow command

difbk st (target mergelist number (reffrer lrs merge list num or target file)|merge list path)

Reset

remove recent backup

1. type bellow command

difbk reset  

• lrs option

  option	set value	comment
  -s	no	without comfirm, remove it

List backup files

difbk management backup generation by backup files's text file(in fact commpressed into gz). Here list backup's list text files. this subcommand is base command in difbk. This is used for sch, rs and diff, etc. When add no -full option, display recent 30 merge file path

1. type bellow command

difbk lrs -e

• lrs option

  option	set value	comment
  -e	no	display every backup file
  -d	string	description's include filter string
  -de	string	description's or filter string
  -dv	string	description's exclude filter label
  -full	no	full merge list display

Search

difbk can search path or file contents. It's freqently use feature, and strong one at the same time.

Path search

1. type bellow command

difbk sch {search path word1} {search path word2} {search path word3} ...

• It's and search.

• sch option

  option	set value	comment
  -e	string	or search
  -v	string	exclude search
  -d	string	description's include filter string
  -de	string	description's or filter string
  -dv	string	description's exclude filter label
  -da	datetime string (YYYY/MM/DD/hhmm)	delete after datetme
  -db	datetime string (YYYY/MM/DD/hhmm)	delete before datetme
  -j	int	generation number (when difbk lrs -e, display in left brackets)

Contents search

1. type bellow command

difbk sch -c {search path word}

• sch -c option

  option	set value	comment
  -d	string	description's include filter string
  -de	string	description's or filter string
  -dv	string	description's exclude filter label
  -da	datetime string (YYYY/MM/DD/hhmm)	delete after datetme
  -db	datetime string (YYYY/MM/DD/hhmm)	delete before datetme
  -j	int	every generation number (when difbk lrs -e, display in left brackets)

Status diff

1. type bellow command

difbk diff (target mergelist number (reffrer lrs merge list num or target file)|merge list path)

Diff

1. type bellow command

difbk diff { blank (current direcotry diff) | generation number or backup list file path or backuped file path}

• diff option

  option	set value	comment
  -e	int	every generation search on (default daily diff)
  -de	string	description's or filter string
  -dv	string	description's exclude filter label
  -da	datetime string (YYYY/MM/DD/hhmm)	delete after datetme
  -db	datetime string (YYYY/MM/DD/hhmm)	delete before datetme

Restore

All buckup files restore

This is generally called restore

1. type bellow command

difbk rs {backup list file path} {destination directory} (grep path from backup list)

One buckup file restore

This restore only one buckup file. In a nutshell, merge or copy

1. type bellow command

difbk rs {backup one file path}

• above command mean merge

• merge option

  option	set value	comment
  -c	no	not merge but copy

Restore buckup to current project directory

1. type bellow command

difbk rbk [merge list path or order num (number in left brackets when type difkb lrs -e )]

Clean

Validate backup list file

difbk mainly use backup list file. Threfore, this have sub command that varidate backup list file.

1. type bellow command

difbk clean -vl

• latest backup file check and if finding miss, correct.

Delete specify backup generation

Although difbk compress file and save one, Data can be bloated with long use. when so , delete spedify generation, and litghten the buckup.

1. type bellow command

difbk clean -dddd {generation number you wont to leaves last}

• generation number is larger three.

Merge

When you want to merge backups and you want to rename project directory, difbk can do.

1. type bellow command

difbk mrg -alt {project directory after renamd} {backup root directory after renamed}

• backup root project directory mean old_{project directory name}　in the same hierarchy as the project directory

• {project directory after renamd} can use - for current project directory name and _ for deleting current project directory name

• {backup root directory after renamed} can use - for current backup root project directory name and _ for deleting current backup root project directory name

• merge option

  option	set value	comment
  -dest	string	destination directory full path for move