(BASH)Copia de seguridad de una carpeta completa comprimiendo su tamaño | (BASH)Backup from a complete folder reducing his weight

BackupFolder.sh

#!/bin/bash
        ## make a backup from whole folder  entry by argument##
        ## $1 only could be a folder or file  ##
        ## For desscompress use tar -xvf file.tar.gz ##
        actualDate=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")
        errorState=$?
        folderPath="/home/manrique/BACKUPS"
        tar -zcvf $folderPath/$1-$actualDate.tar.gz $1
        ##Check errors
        if [ $errorState -eq 0 ]; then
                echo "------------------------------------------------------"
                echo " Backup complete. in $folderPath"
                echo "------------------------------------------------------"
                ## send system log to /var/log/syslog
                echo "$actualDate Backup $1 file complete in $folderPath" >> /var/log/syslog
        else
                echo "Error succeded, see systemlog"
fi

You must change the folderPath to your own backup folder path