LinuxMintBackup 🗄️🐧

A Python-based automation tool for creating incremental, timestamped backups on Linux Mint using rsync.
Designed to be safe, configurable, and production-ready, with support for logging and optional systemd automation.

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📌 Features

• ✅ Incremental backups using rsync
• 📁 Timestamped snapshot directories
• 🔗 latest symlink for easy restores
• 🧾 Configurable sources, exclusions, and destination
• 📝 Detailed logging
• ⏱️ Optional automation via systemd timer
• 🛡️ Safe-by-design testing workflow (supports dry runs)

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📂 Project Structure

LinuxMintBackup/
├── backup.py
├── config.json
├── logs/
├── .gitignore
└── README.md

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⚙️ Requirements

• Linux Mint (or any modern Linux distribution)
• Python 3.8+
• rsync

Install rsync if needed:

sudo apt install rsync

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🔧 Configuration

Edit config.json to define what gets backed up:

{
  "sources": ["/home/youruser", "/etc"],
  "exclude": ["/home/youruser/.cache", "/home/youruser/.local/share/Trash"],
  "destination": "/mnt/backup/linux-mint",
  "log_file": "/home/youruser/LinuxMintBackup/logs/backup.log"
}

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▶️ Usage

python3 backup.py

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🔐 Security Notes

• Do NOT commit backup data to Git
• Ensure .gitignore excludes backup destinations and logs

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🧑‍💻 Author

Novrus Shehaj
GitHub: https://github.com/NovrusShehaj

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📜 License

MIT License