Rsync-Unattended.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Usage: ./Rsync-Unattended.sh /path/to/source/ /path/to/destination YourSecurePassword

# Source & destination directories, & encryption password.
source="$1"
destination="$2"
password="$3"

# Get the current system time in the MM-DD-YY-HH-MM-SS (12-hour) format
timestamp=$(date +%m-%d-%y-%I-%M-%S)

# Create new directory in destination titled current date/time
new_dir="$destination/$timestamp"
mkdir "$new_dir"

# Create text file to store the rsync output
touch "$new_dir/rsync_output_$timestamp.txt"

# Iterate through each item in the source path
for item in "$source"/*; do
  # Check if the item is a directory
  if [ -d "$item" ]; then
    # Run rsync archive, verbose, progress, and compress. Outputs readout to console and rsync_output_$timestamp.txt.
    rsync -avzP --delay-updates "$item" "$new_dir" | tee -a "$new_dir/rsync_output_$timestamp.txt"

  fi
done

# Encrypt $new_dir using 7z with
7z a -r -mhe=on -p "$password" "$destination/${timestamp}.7z" "$new_dir" | tee "$destination/7z_output_$timestamp.txt"

# Check if the tar command was successful
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  # The tar command was successful, so delete the unarchived data from the destination directory
  rm -r "$new_dir"
fi