BackupShell is just that. A shell script for creating backups of a system using tar.

Features

1. Retention policy
2. Compressed backup
3. Exclude list

Install

1. Copy to /usr/local/lib64/
2. Configure script options in backup.py
3. Schedule a cron job to run backup.py

Codeholics Post

https://codeholics.com/linux-backup-restore-with-tar-part-1-of-2