backups.md

Create Full Backup

tar -zcvpf backup-filename-`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M'`.tar.gz /path/to/my/data/

Create incremental backups

tar -zcvpf backup-filename.tar.gz -g snapshot-filename.snar /path/to/my/data/

Restore incremental backups

• level0

tar -zxvf backup-filename.0.tar.gz -g /dev/null 

• level1

tar -zxvf backup-filename.1.tar.gz -g /dev/null 

• level2

tar -zxvf backup-filename.2.tar.gz -g /dev/null 

Keep last 3 backups

ls -tdp /path/to/backups/*.tar.gz | grep -v '/$' | tail -n +4 | xargs -I {} rm -- {}