Utility written in Bourne Shell to allow the user to easily back up their HOME to a pre-defined storage location, using a GZip-compressed archive generated with tar(1).
Optionally, the user can have notify-send(1) send a notification to his or her notifications daemon and/or a shell command executed, when the backup routine is finished.
Per tar(1)'s regular functionality, you can also provide an exclusion file, in which the user can list files he or she wishes not to be backed up.
Installation can be done with Cito. Your best bet, however, is to install via BackMeUp's installation script.
For a quick terminal one-liner, using the aforementioned installation script, you should be able to execute the following, assuming you have sudo(8):
(cd /tmp; curl -so backmeup-installer 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/terminalforlife/Extra/master/source/backmeup/backmeup-installer' && sudo \sh backmeup-installer; rm backmeup-installer)If that fails, you probably don't have curl(1), so try wget(1):
(cd /tmp; wget -qO backmeup-installer 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/terminalforlife/Extra/master/source/backmeup/backmeup-installer' && sudo \sh backmeup-installer; rm backmeup-installer)If you don't have sudo(8), just omit it from the command(s) above, and run them as the root user, however you gain such privileges.
If you've used the installer, then you can run the following to delete the files it creates:
sudo rm -v /usr/share/man/man1/backmeup.1.gz /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/backmeup /usr/bin/backmeup
If you don't have sudo(8), you'll have to acquire root privileges by other means.