backup script

#/bin/bash

### settings ###
FOLDERS="/folders/separated /by/space";
DATABASES="database_names separated_by space";
DBUSER="YOURDBUSER";
DBPASS="YOURDBPASS";
BACKUPFOLDER="backup-"`date '+%d-%m-%Y'`;

### creating backup folder ###
mkdir $BACKUPFOLDER;

### dumping databases
for index in $DATABASES
do
  `mysqldump -u $DBUSER -p$DBPASS $index > $BACKUPFOLDER/$index.sql`;
done

### zipping folders ###
tar -zcvpf $BACKUPFOLDER/folders-all.tar.gz $FOLDERS --exclude=nobackup;

### zipping everything, ready to go ###
tar -zcvpf $BACKUPFOLDER.tar.gz $BACKUPFOLDER;