minifyBackup

Name

minify_backup.sh - reduce backup size by compressing images and replacing large files with dummy content

Synopsis

minify_backup.sh [-aiopv] -s /path/to/backup -t /path/to/minified-backup

Description

-s
    path to source directory (required)
-t
    path to target directory (required)
-a
    minify audio files (optional)
-i
    compress images (optional)
-o
    minify other files (optional)
-p
    minify PDF documents (optional)
-v
    minify video files (optional)

Todo

• Add dummy content for audio and video files instead of replacing them with an empty text file
• Add option to exclude folders from processing (eg. typo3, t3lib, user-defined test content)
• Add more precondition checks (eg. availability of convert, rsync)
• Add error handling