How to take backup of linux system

We have a important directory say /home/user/Picture  in my case user=u-man

, everyday new contents are added there , these data s are important we need to take a backup it every day , how ??


our target directory =      /home/user/Picture

we will make a backup of above directory

open terminal type :

cd Desktop

tar cvzf anuj.tar.gz /home/u-man/Pictures

it will make a anuj.tar.gz file on desktop

now copy and past following script

#!/bin/bash

gunzip /home/u-man/Desktop/anuj.tar.gz
tar uvf /home/u-man/Desktop/anuj.tar /home/user/Picture
gzip /home/u-man/Desktop/anuj.tar.gz
exit 0


save it ass shell

now type: sudo chmod +x shell

now every day before shutting down your PC you need to do only  one thing that is  :  ./shell

see the screen shoot 

script-to-take-backup-of-linux-system