Overview

• Name: backupmenu
• Title : Backup Menu TUI
• Description: Backup menu TUI for Linux distributions using
  dd, cp, Tar and rsync. Written in bash, CLI program.

Table of contents

• Overview
• Table of contents
• Installation
• Dependencies
• Usage
• Files and setup
• Features

Installation

Linux Distros built on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy JellyFish)

A Personal Package Archives (PPA) has been created on Ubuntu
package building and hosting section of launchpad site
called backupmenu. Package built on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy JellyFish) 64bit

To install this on your system run commands in terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:typematrix/backupmenu
sudo apt update
sudo apt install backupmenu

Linux Arch based Distro

Package available in the Arch Linux user repo AUR.

For other linux Distro’s

Download latest fixed release and run the makefile as per
terminal commands below for version 2.3 latest release at time of writing.
The disadvantage of this method is you will not be informed of any updates.

curl -sL https://github.com/gavinlyonsrepo/backupmenu/archive/2.3.tar.gz | tar xz
cd backupmenu-2.3
sudo make install

Dependencies

Install dependency bashMultiTool, requires a bash library (Also written by author)

bashmultitool

deborphan, curl, awk, cp, tar, rsync, dialog, dd, and other utilities are used but should be already installed on most distros.

Usage

type in terminal:

backupmenu

Type “backupmenu” in a terminal to run or select the icon.
The program installs an icon in system application menus under system.

Files and setup

Config file: The user MUST create the config file.
“DESTX” is the path for backups.(where X is 1 , 2 ,3 )
“rsyncsource” and “rsyncdest” provide the source and destination paths
for rsync option in backup menu.
The config file can be edited from a main menu option.
backupmenu.cfg file setup example in documentation folder.

EDITOR
“nano” is used as default text editor for editing config files
IF $EDITOR user environment variable is not set.

$EDITOR

Features

• System backup

  1. Destination path as defined in config file or custom path
  2. Make copy of MBR or GPT primary partition with dd
  3. Make a copy of etc dir using cp
  4. Make a copy of home dir using cp
  5. Make copy of package lists.(see below)
  6. Make tarball of entire file system except tmp dev proc sys run
  7. Options 2-6 combined
  8. Custom Source directory for tarball
  9. Rsync backup option selected from main menu

Package Lists

Package list backups are available for Debian or Arch based Distros,
see md files in documentation folder for more details.

1. Arch_package_list.md
2. Debian_package_list.md