Ameer Khan

#  mkdir /backups/web_backup/

#  vi /backups/webbackup.sh 
#!/bin/bash

export path1=/backups/web_backups
date1=`date +%y%m%d_%H%M%S`

/usr/bin/find /backups/web_backups/* -type d -mtime +3 -exec rm -r {} \; 2> /dev/null

mkdir $path1/$date1

cp -r /var/www/html $path1/

cd $path1/html

for i in */; do /bin/tar -zcvf “$path1/$date1/${i%/}.tar.gz” “$i”; done

if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
cd
rm -r /backups/web_backups/html
fi
done

:wq (save & exit)

Now schedule the script inside crontab:-
#The  script will run every night at 12 A.M
#crontab -e
0 0 * * * /backups/webbackup.sh > /dev/null