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A bash file that does a backup of selected directories to an external disk. It's about 340 lines of shell that manages saving to dated target directories using rsync and using links to unchanged files Also performs a target filesystem sanity check and won't run if the wrong external disk is mounted. Been using it for many years on Linux and Mac.

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