backdown

backdown is a simple file backup tool.

backups are stored in ~/Backdown by default, although this can be overridden by the $BACKDOWN_DIR environment variable.

for example, you could set $BACKDOWN_DIR to point to an external hard disk or network location to back up to!

backups are named as follows: YYMMDD_HHMMSS-<original filename>

if you don't want the date/time prefix, you can set $BACKDOWN_STRIP_PREFIX to true

usage

backdown <files...>

Note

you can set $BACKDOWN_VERBOSE to true when backing up directories to show what files are being copied you can also set $BACKDOWN_IGNORENONEXISTENT to true to skip over non-existent files instead of exiting.

example

backdown ~/Pictures ~/Projects ~/Documents

building

prerequisites

you'll need:

• dub, the dlang package manager
• a dlang compiler
  • i recommend ldc, but dmd and gdc also work

compiling

to compile, simply run the following:

dub build --build=release

this will output a backdown file in the root of the repository. copy this to a location on your $PATH, like ~/.local/bin