[BASH]Savefiles autosaver

[Cakeofruit]

Hello mac kerbaunauts !

This is a bash script that i'm working on.(still a WIP don't use if you don't know bash)

This is made to autosave your save files in kerbal and allow you to grab a old persistent.sfs that isn't corrupt by a craft randomly explode ( true story )

Make a new .command of .sh and make it excutable than that the code and paste it.

Then put this file in the save you want to save

This should works on linux but i'm not sure.

#!/bin/bash

#INIT

#*******************************************************************************************************************************************

clear

Adress=$0

dir=${Adress%/*}

dirdir=${dir%/*}

dirdirdir=${dirdir%/*}

Adresslength=${#Adress}

#source auto and folder name

Nametosave="Back_Up"

cd ${dirdirdir// /?}

mkdir $Nametosave

Source_auto=${dir// /\?}

Dest_auto=${dirdirdir// /?}/$Nametosave

#VARIABLES & CONFIGURATION

#*******************************************************************************************************************************************

cible=$Source_auto

ciblelog=$Dest_auto

Dest=$Dest_auto

interval=5

#nbbackup=20 Not use for now

#BigBackup=10 Not use for now

#END OF VARIABLES & CONFIGURATION, DON'T CHANGE AFTER THIS WARNING

#*******************************************************************************************************************************************

#Files log

cd $ciblelog

touch rsync.log

backup_log=$ciblelog/rsync.log

## need to create a intermadiate folder that contain the small update

while true ;do rsync -ravb --backup-dir=`date +%H:%M` $cible $Dest >> $backup_log;sleep $interval;done &

sleep 3600

kill $!; trap 'kill $!' SIGTERM

I'm open to any improvement you could thinks of.

To do list:

change the dest that it doesn't mess up the ksp files ( by creating invalid saves)

Make a others script to make a profile ( change the souce, Dest, and the interval) maybe in applescript or bash if my script works on ubuntu

secondary : built a xcode interface

[NathanKell]

This (neat!) tool/application should be in the eponymous subforum. And so it is!

[hab136]

Neat. Instead of sleeping for an hour, you might want to launch KSP and wait till it closes, then kill the rsync. "open -W KSP.app" will launch KSP and wait for it to finish. If you use Steam, the Steam app runs and then exits, so you have you just check if KSP is running via "ps".

I'm also pretty sure the "trap" needs to be set up before you start waiting.

So, putting this together (and adding support for Linux KSP):

while true ;do rsync -ravb --backup-dir=`date +%H:%M` $cible $Dest >> $backup_log;sleep $interval;done &

RSYNCPID=$!
trap 'kill $RSYNCPID' SIGTERM

if [ -d "/Applications/KSP.app" ]; then
        # Run the Steam launcher for KSP
	open "/Applications/KSP steam.app"
        # Wait for the real KSP app to start
	sleep 60
        # Wait for KSP to quit
	while ( ps xa |grep [K]SP.app ); do
		sleep 60;
	done
elif [ -d /Applications/Kerbal Space Program/KSP.app ]; then
        # Run the non-Steam version of KSP
	open -W /Applications/Kerbal Space Program/KSP.app
elif which -s KSP.x86_64; then
	KSP.x86_64
elif which -s KSP.x86; then
	KSP.x86
else
	echo "Can't find KSP!"
	exit 1
fi

kill $RSYNCPID

I'll also point out that there's also other ways to accomplish the same thing:

1. I put my entire "saves" directory in Google Drive and make a symlink from my KSP directory. It auto-saves revisions, and backs up at the same time. Dropbox does the same thing. Mac and Linux can make a symlink with "ln -s"; on Windows it's "mklink /d". Then whenever the game auto-saves, a new revision is made. Same thing when you save a new quicksave (although now we have alt+f5 and alt+f9 for named quicksaves).

2. Windows has "previous versions" and OS X has Time Machine, though Time Machine doesn't run that often and might miss things.

[Cakeofruit]

I know that dropbox and a simlink is a good alternative but i wanted a script that i can tweak and that i' m mastering.

I want to use this on my work and project so dropbox is out of the league

Time machine lost 3 h of careful flights to set up my RT networks.

nice piece of code to check if a app is launch i will try it ( see if it fit well in the script) .

i'm also trying to make a xcode interface but i really struggle ;(

ps : thx NathanKell to move this thread in the good location and for your awesome mods