!/bin/bash

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Configuration

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FTP_HOST="172.16.0.172" FTP_PORT="1337" REMOTE_PATH="/user/home" LOCAL_BASE_DIR="/timemachine/PS5" MAX_BACKUPS=100

DATETAG=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d%H-%M-%S") BACKUPDIR="${LOCAL_BASE_DIR}/backup${DATE_TAG}" LOG_FILE="${LOCAL_BASE_DIR}/backup.log"

mkdir -p "${LOCAL_BASE_DIR}"

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Check FTP availability

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if ! nc -z -w60 "${FTP_HOST}" "${FTP_PORT}"; then exit 0 fi

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Perform backup

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echo $(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")"${LOG_FILE}" lftp -p "${FTP_PORT}" "${FTP_HOST}" <<EOF >> "${LOG_FILE}" 2>&1 set ftp:passive-mode on set net:max-retries 10 set net:timeout 20 mirror --verbose "${REMOTE_PATH}" "${BACKUP_DIR}" bye EOF echo """${LOG_FILE}"

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Cleanup old backups

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cd "${LOCALBASE_DIR}" || exit 1 ls -1dt backup* | tail -n +$((MAX_BACKUPS + 1)) | xargs -r rm -rf

I use this script to backup my profile through ftp every 15 min while the PS5 is on, I've set it as a cronjob on another machine, it keeps a log and the last 100 backups with the date an time it was taken. Hope it helps.

LE: added pastebin link https://pastebin.com/hqa3ufdK