#!/bin/bash PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin" today=$(date '+%Y%m%d') folderToBackup="/home/kalle" targetFolder="/backups" backupname="kalle" backupLog="/root/backup-$today.log" tar cvf ${targetFolder}/${backupname}-${today}.tar \ ${folderToBackup} &> ${backupLog}