How to create a batch file in Mac?

Question

I need to find a solution at work to backup specific folders daily, hopefully to a RAR or ZIP file.

If it was on PC, I would have done it already. But I don\'t have any

Answer 1

You can just make a bash script that does the backup and then you can either double-click it or run it on a schedule. I don't know your paths and/or tools of choice, but some thing along these lines:

#!/bin/bash
FILENAME=`date +"/Volumes/path/to/network/share/Backup/%Y-%m-%d.tgz"`
cd /directory/to/backup || exit 1
tar -cvz "$FILENAME" .

You can save that on your Desktop as backup and then go in Terminal and type:

chmod +x ~/Desktop/backup

to make it executable. Then you can just double click on it - obviously after changing the paths to reflect what you want to backup and where to.

Also, you may prefer to use some other tools - such as rsync but the method is the same.