Trainers controlled their robots remotely with joysticks. soo not autonomous? just more expensive battlebots... yawn.
try storing the paths to backup in a dot-file; one path per line. then, in the script, iterate that file line by line backing up the paths.
she tried to destroy a man's family by trying to keep him from killing himself. Then "learned" her lesson and went along with it.
I use it here and there. it just seems to shift effort from writing code to reading and fixing code. the "amount" of work is about the same.
see if you can find a used "steamlink" online.