Creating Backups.

This script was trimmed to serve as an example.

The three options shown (email, jop, dots) demonstrates, how to list items with case statements:

Single item/directory (jop).

Multiple items in single directory (dots).

Multiple items in multiple directories (email).

The text files created after the archive serves as an item list

with current permissions.

tar --directory= /path/to/directory/ --create --file INSERT_ARCHIVE_NAME.tar /path/to/file;

#!/bin/bash

#License: GPL v3

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.

#

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

# GNU General Public License for more details.

#

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# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

#Name: getoverhere.sh

#Purpose:

#Version: beta 0.07

#Author: SGOTI (Some Guy On The Internet)

#Date: Sat 29 Jan 2022 02:19:29 AM EST

#variables:

VAR_TBALL=

VAR_TARGET=

VAR_JUMP=

VAR_VALUE=

#start:

cat << "EOT01"

Options:

email |"${HOME}/.thunderbird/"

jop |"${HOME}/Documents/joplin"

dots |"${HOME}/.bashrc .vimrc .bash_aliases"

EOT01

echo -e "What do you want to backup? : c."

read VAR_VALUE

case ${VAR_VALUE} in

"email" )

VAR_TBALL="INSERT_EMAIL_NAME$(date +%m-%d-%Y).tar.gz"

VAR_TARGET="msgFilterRules.dat"

VAR_JUMP="${HOME}/.thunderbird/*.default-release/ImapMail/imap.mail.yahoo.com/"

echo -e "Grabbing INSERT_EMAIL_NAME...n"

tar -C ${VAR_JUMP} --create --file ${VAR_TBALL} --gzip ${VAR_TARGET}

sleep 1

VAR_TBALL="INSERT_EMAIL_NAME$(date +%m-%d-%Y).tar.gz"

VAR_TARGET="msgFilterRules.dat"

VAR_JUMP="${HOME}/.thunderbird/*.default-release/ImapMail/imap.gmail.com/"

echo -e "Grabbing INSERT_EMAIL_NAME...n"

tar -C ${VAR_JUMP} --create --file ${VAR_TBALL} --gzip ${VAR_TARGET}

sleep 1

VAR_TBALL="EMAIL_ARCHIVES$(date +%m-%d-%Y).tar.gz"

VAR_TARGET="Mail/"

VAR_JUMP="${HOME}/.thunderbird/*.default-release/"

echo -e "Grabbing email EMAIL_ARCHIVES...n"

tar -C ${VAR_JUMP} --create --file ${VAR_TBALL} --gzip ${VAR_TARGET}

echo -e "Creating List for ${VAR_TBALL}...n"

ls -lhAR --group-directories-first ${VAR_JUMP}${VAR_TARGET} > EMAIL_ARCHIVES$(date +%m-%d-%Y).txt

sleep 1

VAR_TBALL="THUNDERBIRD_CALENDER$(date +%m-%d-%Y).tar.gz"

VAR_TARGET="calenders/"

VAR_JUMP="${HOME}/Documents/"

echo -e "Grabbing email THUNDERBIRD_CALENDER...n"

tar -C ${VAR_JUMP} --create --file ${VAR_TBALL} --gzip ${VAR_TARGET}

echo -e "Creating List for ${VAR_TBALL}...n"

ls -lhAR --group-directories-first ${VAR_JUMP}${VAR_TARGET} > THUNDERBIRD_CALENDER$(date +%m-%d-%Y).txt

sleep 1

VAR_TBALL="THUNDERBIRD_ADDRESS_BOOK$(date +%m-%d-%Y).tar.gz"

VAR_TARGET="address-book/"

VAR_JUMP="${HOME}/Documents/"

echo -e "Grabbing ${VAR_TARGET}...n"

tar -C ${VAR_JUMP} --create --file ${VAR_TBALL} --gzip ${VAR_TARGET}

echo -e "Creating List for ${VAR_TBALL}...n"

ls -lhAR --group-directories-first ${VAR_JUMP}${VAR_TARGET} > THUNDERBIRD_ADDRESS_BOOK$(date +%m-%d-%Y).txt

sleep 1

VAR_TBALL="THUNDERBIRD_ALL$(date +%m-%d-%Y).tar.gz"

VAR_TARGET=".thunderbird/"

VAR_JUMP="${HOME}/"

echo -e "Grabbing ${VAR_TARG