Top 11 Shell Cron Projects

dynamic-wallpaper

1 1,786 4.8 Shell

A simple bash script to set wallpapers according to current time, using cron job scheduler.

Project mention: Cinnamon Dynamic Wallpaper - my first extension is now available! | /r/linuxmint | 2023-07-07

The included wallpapers are from here: https://github.com/adi1090x/dynamic-wallpaper
restic-automatic-backup-scheduler

1 576 7.2 Shell

Automatic restic backup using Backblaze B2 storage and either Linux systemd timers, macOS LaunchAgent, Windows ScheduledTask or simply cron.

Project mention: Duplicity | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-24

I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. For example, Pika Backup is a popular UI for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.
For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1]
I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using, and prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, but seems to have very few users. And the fact that there are so many competing tools makes it difficult to land on one.
[0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler
[1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...
[2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic
[3] https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile
[4] https://github.com/ducalex/prestic
InfluxDB

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mysqlbkup

0 154 0.0 Shell

Lightweight MySQL backup script in BASH
ohmycron

0 138 0.0 Shell

Run cron jobs in a standardized environment with logs and locking
docker-backup-to-s3

0 133 0.0 Shell

Docker container that periodically backups files to Amazon S3 using s3cmd and cron
docker-cronicle-docker

0 99 5.4 Shell

Scheduling dockerized Cronicle cron jobs run in docker container.
borg-cron-helper

0 79 0.0 Shell

Helper shell scripts for BorgBackup to automate backups and make your life easier… 😉
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djs

0 78 0.0 Shell

Daily Job Scheduler
btrfs-backup

0 69 3.8 Shell

A simple, flexible script for versioned backups using btrfs and rsync (by 3coma3)
bgproc

0 10 6.5 Shell

bash loop to run tasks in the background. used as an anacron alternative
restickler

1 0 4.5 Shell

Supervise restic to back up, test restore, forget, prune, and check.

Project mention: Recommendations for cloud backup for MacOS other than iCloud Drive? | /r/apple | 2023-04-29

I created a helper tool restickler to manage when restic runs (e.g., to prevent it running while on battery, hotspot, or idle).

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-01-24.

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Cron projects in Shell? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	dynamic-wallpaper	1,786
2	restic-automatic-backup-scheduler	576
3	mysqlbkup	154
4	ohmycron	138
5	docker-backup-to-s3	133
6	docker-cronicle-docker	99
7	borg-cron-helper	79
8	djs	78
9	btrfs-backup	69
10	bgproc	10
11	restickler	0