OK, so today I set out to create a very simple backup script (bash) that could be run periodically from the crontab to backup the contents of an arbitrary directory in the filesystem (in this case, my user’s home directory). I was originally planning on doing a simple tar incremental or differential backup script when I stumbled upon a neat little utility called duplicity. It’s apparently been around for quite some time and is in fairly common use, but… it’s new to me!

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