From 28e39987921d7d7aeb6019837adf0d6b835b03c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Bradley <bradley.will@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 09:38:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Create rotate.sh

From http://thehappyengineer.blogspot.com/2012/07/automated-rotation-backup-script.html
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 rotate.sh | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 rotate.sh

diff --git a/rotate.sh b/rotate.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..99d2fc2
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+++ b/rotate.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Author: Marcello Torchio
+
+# Set the directory name that you wish to backup
+DIRTOBACKUP=$1
+
+# Set up the backup destination directory
+BACKUPDIRDEST=$2
+
+# Set up the number of days for backup rotation
+NUMDAYS=7;
+
+# Start logging
+echo "["$(date)"] - Started Backup"
+# Check if the destination dir exists. If not create it
+if [ ! -d "$BACKUPDIRDEST/"$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")"/" ]; then
+    # Creates directory for today's backup
+    mkdir $BACKUPDIR/"$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")"
+fi
+
+# Echo the log line.
+echo "["$(date)"] - Backup directory $DIRTOBACKUP in $BACKUPDIRDEST/"$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")"/"
+# Execute the backup command. This backup consist in a recursive copy of the source dir into destination dir
+cp -R $DIRTOBACKUP $BACKUPDIRDEST/"$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")"/
+
+TOTMB=$(du $BACKUPDIRDEST/"$(date +"%m-%d-%Y")"/ -hs)
+echo "["$(date)"] - Finished Backup - $TOTMB Copied"
+
+# Search for folders older than NUMDAYS days and remove them. This makes possible rotation of backups
+for i in `find $BACKUPDIRDEST/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +$NUMDAYS -print`;
+do
+        echo -e "["$(date)"] - Found outdated backup folder! Deleting directory $i";
+        \rm -rf $i;
+done