Just a backup script for Linux - bummed it together with some googling: Designed for overnight backup, hook up a backup drive in the afternoon one day, and put

Just a backup script for Linux - bummed it together with some googling: Designed for overnight backup, hook up a backup drive in the afternoon one day, and put in safe the next morning. Script mounts and verifies existence of a backup external hdd; creates a backup tar on the drive; deletes all but the last five recent backup archives; then unmounts drive for removal next morning.