🔐 Automated Backup & Recovery with Encryption + Cloud Storage

This project demonstrates a secure, automated backup system built using:

• Bash scripting for automation
• GPG for encryption
• Cron for scheduling
• AWS S3 (or Google Drive via rclone) for offsite storage

It’s designed as a learning + portfolio project to showcase system administration, security, and cloud integration skills.

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🚀 Features

• 📂 Compress files/folders into .tar.gz
• 🔑 Encrypt backups with GPG (asymmetric encryption)
• ☁️ Upload to AWS S3 (or Google Drive alternative)
• ♻️ Automated with cron jobs
• ✅ Restore tested (backup → decrypt → extract)

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📂 Project Structure

automating-backups/

├── backup.sh # Main backup script

├── sample_crontab.txt # Example cron schedule

├── README.md # Documentation

├── screenshots/

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⚙️ Setup Guide

1. Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/KavinduDr/Automating-backups.git

2. Make script executable

chmod +x backup.sh

3. Edit script

BACKUP_SRC="/var/www/html"   # Or your chosen directory
BACKUP_DEST="/home/ubuntu/backup-project/backups"
GPG_RECIPIENT="Your Name <[email protected]>"

4. Run backup manually

./backup.sh

5. Automate with cron

to install :

crontab sample_crontab.txt

6. To restore

Decrypt

gpg -d backups/backup_2025-08-30_10-25-12.tar.gz.gpg > restore.tar.gz

Extract

tar -xzf restore.tar.gz -C /path/to/restore/