List all non Git comited files and make a gzip archive with them 

GITFOLDER="/srv/some/folder"   ls-files --others --exclude-standard | tar czf ${GITFOLDER}-archives/uploads-$(date '+%Y%m%d%H%M').tar.gz -T -

April 2, 2014 — renoirb

Explanation

Assuming your web app has a git checkout is in /srv/some/folder (i.e. there is a /srv/some/folder/.git), archive the user uploads to /srv/some/folder-archives with that one liner.

Use:

cd /srv/some/folder
# this one-liner

Limitations

A fully complete script would:

  • Check if $GITFOLDER exists
  • Check if $GITFOLDER has a .git directory
  • Create a temporary (e.g. tmp=$(mktemp)) file to log anything; if [ "$?" -ne 0 ] ; exit with status exit 1, otherwise delete the $tmp file and exit 0.
file-management archiving
date tar