b3

• because sometimes stupid simple is better
• <40 line bash script
• a successor, not to backr2 but to the original backr.py script
• no advanced incremental backups, just make tarballs

Usage

$ cd /foo/bar
$ b3

or

$ b3 /path/to/file-or-dir

How it stores data

• ~/b3/basename-hash/datetime.tar.gz

$ tree ~/b3
~/b3
├── b3-7c46f90
│   └── 2022-07-30T22:06:20-07:00.tar.gz
└── Documents-05bc32d
    ├── 2022-05-25T14:38:16-07:00.tar.gz
    └── 2022-06-01T20:51:05-07:00.tar.gz