From e107fc9b3112b5efa37ecee739aa9017d5d3cc54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Seifert <git@daniel-seifert.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:35:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] logrotate already uses the latest backup

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 2 +-
 varbackup    | 9 ++++-----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ec43f15..4156dc3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
     - can create required configuration (if missing)
     - check current files against latest backup
     - save folder as archive
-    - older versions than the lastest are compressed
+    - all versions are compressed
     - use file rotation (max 100 files per default, customizable)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/varbackup b/varbackup
index d2da38c..f8bd2a0 100755
--- a/varbackup
+++ b/varbackup
@@ -37,13 +37,12 @@ if [ ! -f "${BACKUPDIR}../rotatemap_var.conf" ]; then
 fi
 
 [ -z ${isSilent} ] && echo "pack var directory"
-tar cfP ${BACKUPDIR}var.new.tar ${BASEDIR}/var;
+tar cfP ${BACKUPDIR}new.tar ${BASEDIR}/var;
 
-if [ ! -f "${BACKUPDIR}var.tar" ] || [ "$(cmp ${BACKUPDIR}var.tar ${BACKUPDIR}var.new.tar)" ]; then
-  [ -f ${BACKUPDIR}var.tar ] && gzip -c ${BACKUPDIR}var.tar > ${BACKUPDIR}var.tar.gz && /usr/sbin/logrotate -fs ${BACKUPDIR}../rotatemap_var.state ${BACKUPDIR}../rotatemap_var.conf
-  mv ${BACKUPDIR}var.new.tar ${BACKUPDIR}var.tar
+if [ ! -f "${BACKUPDIR}latest.tar" ] || [ "$(cmp ${BACKUPDIR}latest.tar ${BACKUPDIR}new.tar)" ]; then
+  cp ${BACKUPDIR}new.tar ${BACKUPDIR}latest.tar && mv ${BACKUPDIR}new.tar ${BACKUPDIR}var.tar && /usr/sbin/logrotate -fs ${BACKUPDIR}../rotatemap_var.state ${BACKUPDIR}../rotatemap_var.conf
 else
-  rm ${BACKUPDIR}var.new.tar
+  rm ${BACKUPDIR}new.tar
 fi
 
 [ -z ${isSilent} ] && echo "finished"