Wrote this simple one to create gzipped tar backups and send them over ssh. A lot faster than rsync if you just need to back up a whole folder on a schedule. It requires pigz, which is a parallel gzip implementation.

Variables: $HOSTNAME - the computer hostname $TOBACKUPDIR - the local directory you want backed up $N_CORES - the number of cores you want to use for compression $REMOTEUSER - the ssh user login on the remote server $REMOTEHOST - the remote server's IP $BACKUPDIR - where you want the file to be backed up to

#!/bin/bash

bfile=`date +%F`.$HOSTNAME.tar.gz

    /usr/bin/tar cvpf - \
            # You can exclude local directories here with
            # --exclude="dir" \
            $TOBACKUPDIR | pigz -p $N_CORES | \
            ssh $REMOTEUSER@$REMOTEHOST "cat - > /$BACKUPDIR/$bfile"