#!/usr/bin/env nu use std # This script is intended to backup the contents of my Viofo A229 dashcam to my computer, very quickly and efficiently. # It is intended to be ran semi-rarely (every month or two), and is also a limited test of the Fish shell/scripting language. # It is intended to be cross-platform, but targets Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (with WSL2 support). # Acquire a list of potential mountable drive letters let irrelevant = mount | grep drvfs | split column " " | get column1 | split column ":" | get column1 mut mountable = cmd.exe /C "wmic logicaldisk get name" e> (std null-device) | split row "\n" | skip 1 | split column ":" | get column1 | filter {|x| ($irrelevant | find $x | length) == 0} print "Pick a USB device to mount for Viofo backup:" let letter = $mountable | input list let drive_letter = $"($letter):" # Mount the drive # TODO: Check if the drive is already mounted sudo mkdir --parents /mnt/($letter) sudo mount -t drvfs ($drive_letter) /mnt/($letter) -o uid=(id -u $env.USER),gid=(id -g $env.USER),metadata # Test permissions & folder structure let expected_folders = [ "DCIM", "DCIM/Movie", "DCIM/Movie/RO", "DCIM/Photo" ] print "Checking folder structure..." for folder_suffix in $expected_folders { # Test folder existence let path = $"/mnt/($letter)/($folder_suffix)" let status = test -d ($path) | complete if $status.exit_code != 0 { print $"Error: Expected folder ($path) does not exist." exit 1 } # TODO: Test folder permissions (READ, EXECUTE required) # TODO: Test file permissions (all RO/Photo need READ/WRITE) } # Invoke rsync to copy the files print "Copying video files..." try { let source = $"/mnt/($letter)/DCIM/Movie/RO" let target = "roman:/mnt/user/media/dashcam/video" do -c { rsync -avh --progress --remove-source-files ($source) ($target) } } catch { print $env.LAST_EXIT_CODE } print "Copying photo files..." try { let source = $"/mnt/($letter)/DCIM/Photo" let target = "roman:/mnt/user/media/dashcam/photo" do -c { rsync -avh --progress --remove-source-files ($source) ($target) } } catch { print $env.LAST_EXIT_CODE } print "Sync complete." # Unmount the drive print "Unmounting drive..." sudo umount /mnt/($letter) sudo rmdir /mnt/($letter) # TODO: Check if duplicate mounts exist print "All backed up." # TODO: Statistical analysis of file duration # On average, how far back do my recordings go? 2 months? # While the oldest video file could give an idea of how back I currently go, it would be better to use p99 average bitrate. # If you know the average bitrate, you can use the current space occupied by all files to estimate the total duration you could store on the drive. # Then, if you can estimate the daily recording duration on average, you can estimate how many days back you can record on average. # Additionally, since this script removes files, it might be better to use the 'full size' of the disk to estimate maximum duration capacity (minus 1GB).