I'd like to set up a shell script to back up my files and then send to me via email. How do you go about doing this?

This should work for you. Modify it to your liking:



#!/bin/sh

tar=/bin/tar
uuencode=/usr/bin/uuencode
mail=/bin/mail

backupdir=/backup/autobackups

emailbackup="y"
subject="Backup"
mailto="user@domain.com"

mkdir -p ${backupdir}
if [ ! -d ${backupdir} ]
then
exit 1
fi

$tar zcvf ${backupdir}/home.tar.gz /home
$uuencode ${backupdir}/home.tar.gz home.tar.gz > ${backupdir}/home.tar.gz.uu

if [ $emailbackup = "y" ]
then
$mail -s "$subject" $mailto < ${backupdir}/home.tar.gz.uu
fi

rm -f ${backupdir}/*

exit

i made this in like 10-20 mins using the phpmailer class

unzip, chmod 755 email.php, then edit the config options in email.php

then set a crond job to run email.php every day/night



this will make a backup of a file or directory and then email it to you a an attachment