Auto-backup? Why isn't it a thing?

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ghettopi I had found this script which seemed to be nice but to me it does not work (taken from https://dietpi.com/forum/t/automate-dietpi-backup/2271/1 )

MAX_BACKUPS=5
cd /mnt/data/dietpi-backup
if [[ -d dietpi-backup ]]; then
  rm dietpi-backup-$MAX_BACKUPS
  for ((i=$MAX_BACKUPS-1;i>1;i--)); do
    mv dietpi-backup-$i dietpi-backup-$( (( $i+1 )) )
  done
  mv dietpi-backup dietpi-backup-2
fi
/DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-backup 1

I would like to create maximum 5 backup folders and always delete the oldest one (I would run the script with crontab). However, that script ends to just do a dietpi-backup and never creates new folders but overwrites the same one (definitely not what I wanted).

Maybe someone could reply what is the issue :slight_smile: