💾 BakPak

🧠 A lightweight Bash script for timestamped directory backups — easy to automate with cron.

📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/foiovituh/bakpak.git
cd bakpak
chmod +x bakpak.sh
sudo ln -s "$PWD/bakpak.sh" /usr/local/bin/bakpak

🚀 Usage

Required:

-f <path>    Directory to back up (must be readable)
-t <path>    Directory to store the compressed archive (must be writable)

Optional:

-v           Show script version
-h           Show a help message
-u           Uncompressed mode - create a .tar without gzip compression
-d           Dry-run mode — no backups will be created, only displayed
-c <expr>    Schedule backup as a cron job using the specified cron expression

Examples:

• Basic backup (compressed):

bakpak -f ~/Documents -t /mnt/docs_backup

• Dry-run (no files created):

bakpak -f ~/Tests -t /mnt/backup_simulations -d

• Cron job (1st day of month at 17:00):

bakpak -f /home/user/folder -t /mnt/backups -c "0 17 1 * *"

• Uncompressed backup with custom name:

bakpak -f ~/projects/president -t /mnt/d/band -p uncompressed_site_project -u

⏰ Cron Scheduling

Use the -c option with a valid cron expression (e.g., 0 17 1 * *) to schedule automatic backups.

Make sure both -f (from) and -t (to) arguments use absolute paths (starting with /) so cron runs correctly.

🔍 Logs

All backup activity is automatically logged:

Type	Path
✅ Success	~/.bakpak/logs/successes.log
❌ Error	~/.bakpak/logs/errors.log

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📄 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.