Bash script to backup entire sites, copies all the contents of each site directory, sends an email with info about the results, admits one parameter in case you want to backup only one site

backupsites.sh

#!/bin/bash

SITES=(site1 site2 site3)

DATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")
DIR='/directory/where/sites/are'
BACKUPDIR='/directory/where/to_store/backup'

if [ ! -d "$BACKUPDIR" ]; then
  mkdir $BACKUPDIR
fi

if [ -n "$1" ]; then
  SITES=($1)
fi

echo BACKUP OF SITES AT $DATE >> $BACKUPDIR/result_sites.txt

for i in "${SITES[@]}"; do

  SITE=${i}
  SITENAME=backup-$SITE-$DATE.tgz
  TARTMP=/tmp/$SITENAME

  cd $DIR
  tar -czvf $TARTMP $SITE
  mv $TARTMP $BACKUPDIR

  RESULT='';
  if [ -f "$BACKUPDIR/$SITENAME" ]; then
    RESULT="$SITE Backup Complete and compression done"
  fi

  echo $RESULT >> $BACKUPDIR/result_sites.txt

done

# erase backups older than one week
find $BACKUPDIR/* -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

# send an email with the result_sites.txt
# mail -s "SITE BACKUPS $DATE" [email protected] <<< $BACKUPDIR/result_sites.txt
# echo "Subject: SITE BACKUPS $DATE" | cat - $BACKUPDIR/result_sites.txt | sendmail -F [email protected] -t [email protected]