Server Backup script not mine, credit goes to Joshua R Jones

Server Backup Shell Script

#!/bin/bash
# A Simple Shell Script to Backup Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora / Debian / Ubuntu Apache Webserver and SQL Database
# Path to backup directories
USER="hery"
HOME="/home"

# Store only day of month
DOM=$(date +"%d")
 
# Temporary backup name
# this will be created under /tmp
BACKUPDIR="/backup"

# Backup file name hostname.time.tar.gz
HOMEFILE="$USER-home-$DOM.tar.gz"
MYSQLFILE="$USER-mysql-$DOM.tar.gz"

# Specify databases
DBNAME1="hery_db"

# Set MySQL username and password
MYSQLUSER="MYSQL-USER-NAME"
MYSQLPASSWORD="MYSQL-PASSWORD"

# Remote SSH server setup - FOR A LATER DATE
SSHSERVER="backup.example.com" # your remote ssh server
SSHUSER=""                # username
SSHDUMPDIR="/backup/"    # remote ssh server directory to store dumps
SSHPORT=22 
# Paths for binary files
TAR="/bin/tar"
MYSQLDUMP="/usr/bin/mysqldump"
GZIP="/bin/gzip"
SCP="/usr/bin/scp"
SSH="/usr/bin/ssh"
LOGGER="/usr/bin/logger"


#security reason
BACKUPDIR=/tmp${BACKUPDIR}
# make sure backup directory exists
[ ! -d $BACKUPDIR ] && mkdir -p ${BACKUPDIR} 

#clean backup dir 
rm -rf ${BACKUPDIR}/*

# Log backup start time in /var/log/messages
$LOGGER "$0: *** Backup started @ $(date) ***"
 
# Backup websever dirs
$TAR -zcvf ${BACKUPDIR}/${HOMEFILE} "${HOME}"

# Individual MySQL Backups
$MYSQLDUMP  -u ${MYSQLUSER} -h localhost -p${MYSQLPASSWORD} ${DBNAME1} | $GZIP -9 > ${BACKUPDIR}/${MYSQLFILE}

 
# Dump all local files to failsafe remote UNIX ssh server / home server - FOR A LATER DATE
$SSH -p ${SSHPORT} ${SSHUSER}@${SSHSERVER} mkdir -p ${SSHDUMPDIR}
$SCP -r ${BACKUPDIR}/* ${SSHUSER}@${SSHSERVER}:${SSHDUMPDIR}


# Log backup end time in /var/log/messages
$LOGGER "$0: *** Backup Ended @ $(date) ***"