added my backup scripts

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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# This script will gzip /mnt/backup/live/ 
+# This script assumes /mnt/backup/snapshots/ is where we want to store archives 
+# This script will only keep 7 days worth of archives
+#   -- if you want to change this just change `MAX_BACKUPS` 
+#
+# My personal setup:
+#   -- has this running daily with cron at 00:30z
+#   -- mounts /mnt/backup to it's own specific NFS share configured for the host
+# 
+
+MAX_BACKUPS=7
+
+tar -czf "/mnt/backup/snapshots/gwaine.snapshot.`date + "%FT%H%M%S"`.tar.gz" -C /mnt/backup/live .
+
+COUNT=$(ls -1 /mnt/backup/snapshots/*.tar.gz 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
+
+if [ "$COUNT" -gt $MAX_BACKUPS]; then
+  # why not just delete the oldest file only Trey???
+  # well I'll tell you why! If I want to change MAX_BACKUPS from 7 to 3
+  # I'll have a whole bunch of extra archives I don't want to keep
+  EXTRA=$((COUNT - MAX_BACKUPS))
+  ls -1T /mnt/backup/snapshots/*.tar.gz | tail -n "$EXTRA" | xargs rm -f
+fi