OSX Rsync Backup (ORB)

ORB is a RSync script to backup your entire osx disk/partition.

You can also boot from your backup disk/partition (Very useful for test or restore functions).

INSTALL

Just run the command below to download and give execution permission to ORB script.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rafaelbiriba/ORB-osx-rsync-backup/master/orb
chmod +x orb

USAGE

Using source and destination as parameters

Just run the orb script considering first argument SOURCE path and second argument DESTINATION path.

sudo ./orb /Volumes/OSX/ /Volumes/BKP-Disk/

Using source and destination values as environment variables

Before execution, you need to export the ORB variables. You can just export in shell like the example or export in your .bashrc

$ export ORB_SOURCE='/Volumes/OSX/'
$ export ORB_DESTINATION='/Volumes/BKP-Disk/'

After export, you can run orb command using the parameter -E env that give sudo the access for environment vars.

$ sudo -E env ./orb

Hint: You can export the variables in the root .bashrc. With this way, you can run with the command sudo ./orb because the exported variable is already accessible from sudo scope.