dev-backup

Snapshot the current state of a named project for safe rollback.

Usage

Each project gets its own snapshot numbering. The project name is always the first argument.

# Backup any project
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/dev-backup.sh" <project-name> --project-dir /path/to/your/project

# Example: backup a "my-app" project
bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/dev-backup.sh" my-app --project-dir /home/user/projects/my-app

# No --project-dir? Uses the current working directory
cd /home/user/projects/my-app
bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/dev-backup.sh" my-app

Naming

Snapshots are named per project:

• my-app-snapshot-1, my-app-snapshot-2, …
• another-project-snapshot-1, another-project-snapshot-2, …

Each project tracks its own counter independently.

Excluded from snapshot

• .git, node_modules, .vite, .cache, *.log, .env, backups/

Restore

To restore a snapshot:

# Restore latest snapshot
bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/dev-backup.sh" my-app --restore --project-dir /path/to/your/project

# Restore specific snapshot
bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/dev-backup.sh" my-app --restore --snapshot 2 --project-dir /path/to/your/project

Or use the .latest symlink:

cp -r <backups-dir>/.latest/ <your-project-dir>/

List

To list all snapshots for a project:

bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/dev-backup.sh" my-app --list

Retention

By default, only the last 5 snapshots per project are kept. Customize with:

bash "$SCRIPT_DIR/dev-backup.sh" my-app --keep 10

Verification

After backup, confirm:

ls -la <backups-dir>/

You should see the project-prefixed snapshot and .latest symlink.