Adapted backup system to use rsync over SSH instead of the NFS mount

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/backup b/backup
index 9b71686..4097a93 100755
--- a/backup
+++ b/backup
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/zsh
 
-# rsyncs data from one directory to another. By default all subdirectories of the src directory are copied to the dst directory. Nothing happens unless both arguments are valid directories.
+# rsyncs data from one directory to another. By default all subdirectories of the src directory are copied to the dst directory. No checks are done to verify that the arguments are directories because -d doesn't play nice with remote hosts.
 
 LOG_DIR="$HOME/rsync_logs"
 LOG_FILE="$LOG_DIR/$(date --iso-8601).log"
@@ -12,16 +12,6 @@ if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
-    echo "$1 does not exist or is not a directory"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d "$2" ]; then
-    echo "$2 does not exist or is not a directory"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
 if [ ! -d "$LOG_DIR" ]; then
     echo "Log directory does not exist, creating"
     mkdir -p "$LOG_DIR"
@@ -38,8 +28,8 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-echo "rsync $RSYNC_OPTS ${1%/}/* $2" >> "$LOG_FILE"
-rsync $RSYNC_OPTS ${1%/}/* $2
+echo "rsync $RSYNC_OPTS ${1%/}/ $2" >> "$LOG_FILE"
+rsync $RSYNC_OPTS ${1%/}/ $2
 
 if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
     echo "Backup successful." >> "$LOG_FILE"