Time Machine is a great "enable and forget about it" solution, however it has some limitations too. For example, it can only backup to a drive, not to a folder

Time Machine is a great "enable and forget about it" solution, however it has some limitations too. For example, it can only backup to a drive, not to a folder within the drive. Also, in my case, I wanted to backup the Users folder of my Windows Bootcamp partition but it cannot be done. Excluding files during the backup is also not possible. The nice thing about a small bash script to handle all this is that it can be easily customized to your needs.