clear echo "Welcome to the User Backup program!" echo echo "Please enter your username" read usenam echo "Please enter the directory you would like to backup" read backupdir echo "Please enter the directory you would like to put the backup into" read intodir echo "Thank you, please wait" tar cvjf "$intodir/backup-$usenam-`date +%F-%H-%M-%S`-tar-bz2" $backupdir touch /tmp/tmpreport echo "$usenam backed up $backupdir to $intodir at `date +%F-%H-%M-%S` please see below disk uage report!" | cat > /tmp/tmpreport echo "" | cat >> /tmp/tmpreport echo `df -h` | cat >> /tmp/tmpreport mail -s "$usenam did a backup on `date +%F` at `date +%H:%M:%S`!!!" root@localhost < /tmp/tmpreport rm /tmp/tmpreport echo "All done!"