I just whant to share my backupscript. it backup all dir under /var/www/ to separate tar files whit todays date. -------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash work_dir="/var/www/" bkup_dir="/mnt/backup/www/" date=`date +%Y%m%d` cd $work_dir for file in `\ls -1dt web*` do echo \"$file\"; tar pczf $bkup_dir$file-$date.tgz $work_dir$file/ done ---------------------------------------------------- enjoy regards Marcus if you like to auto remove backup after 30 days add this into the script: days_to_keep=30 #remove old files, older than 30 days echo "Deleting old archives from $bkup_dir" find $bkup_dirweb* -type f -mtime +$days_to_keep -exec rm {} \;