#Backup linux to google drive archive#

Sudo mksquashfs /home $home_backup_file -e Dropbox GoogleDriveĮcho 'Completed $root_backup_file and $home_backup_file at $finish_date' > $logĮcho 'Power is not plugged in. Home_backup_file=$start_date-home-backup.sqsh Sudo mksquashfs / $root_backup_file -e home media dev run mnt proc sys tmp nfs Root_backup_file=$start_date-root-backup.sqsh Power=$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/AC/online)Įcho 'Starting backup $log at $start_date' > $log Make_backups_root_and_home.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash The script (can be copied to any location - preferably the NAS itself) and will build the backups in the same folder. The nice thing is that since the script can live on the NAS it will only execute if it's connected. Thought it could be useful for those wishing to automate it. I turned afrish's excellent answer into a script for myself. I exclude Dropbox and GoogleDrive here to avoid any potential problems in the future, in case I restore those folders from backup and they become messing with the actual files in the cloud. sudo mksquashfs /home/myname /path/to/backup/hdd/home-backup.sqsh -e Dropbox GoogleDrive Same can be done for /home/myname folder, e.g. Now just wait couple minutes (depending on size of the archive) and enjoy all your files at /mnt/root_backup folder. Sudo mount /path/to/backup/hdd/root-backup.sqsh /mnt/root_backup -t squashfs -o loop Where '-e' switch excludes folders you want to exclude (like virtual and external Linux folders in my example).Īfter the backup is done, I can now mount it: sudo mkdir /mnt/root_backup So here is a command I use to back up my root folder: sudo mksquashfs / /path/to/backup/hdd/root-backup.sqsh -e home media dev run mnt proc sys tmp

#Backup linux to google drive archive#

It appears that not only can you mount squashfs file, but also open it as a usual archive with familiar apps like File Roller on Linux and 7-Zip on Windows, etc. The same is true also for the compression/backup operation, SquashFS is many times faster. This means that if you want to mount some large backup of your whole file system, for TAR.GZ it would take like 5 hours (in my experience) and for SquashFS it would take just minutes/seconds. The difference to TAR.GZ is that SquashFS is a full-blown file system with random access to files, while TAR is just one big concatenated file.

This file can be mounted to an existing system and accessed in a usual way, like any other partition. SquashFS is a compressed file system, which is completely stored in one file. It is quite similar to TAR.GZ solution proposed earlier, but has some major benefits.