Scripting Tidbits: Google Drive and Rclone Backups

By Alex in backups on

Every day my server runs a backup script, uploading any new files and changes to Google Drive. Here's the (sanitized) script: Things to note: * I have a gigabit fiber home internet connection, so bandwidth throttling is not a concern to me. There are rclone flags for bandwidth throttling if that…

Scripting Tidbits: Plex Database Backups

By Alex in homelab on

A couple posts ago I mentioned that my Plex database backup script wasn't handling deleting old backups [https://www.creedofman.com/where-did-all-my-storage-go/], and was eating up space that I had to go in and free up manually. I finally took a couple minutes and added a couple lines to fix…