My tar script ( work in progress) backs up my shares on my file server from /data/shares to /backup. both /data and /backup are separately mounted hard drives.
date > /backup/errorlog.txt
echo start >> /backup/log.txt
date >> /backup/log.txt

#setting permissions
chmod 755 -R /data/shares/media
chown ant2ne:mediamasters -R /data/shares/media/*

chmod 751 -R /data/shares/mandi/* 2>> /backup/mandi.test.txt
chown mandi:root -R /data/shares/mandi 2>> /backup/mandi.test.txt

chmod 751 -R /data/shares/ant2ne
chown ant2ne:root -R /data/shares/ant2ne

chmod 777 -R /data/shares/open
chown ant2ne:guest -R /data/shares/open

#/home
cd /home
du -h –max-depth=1 ./ant2ne >> /backup/log.txt
tar cvpjf home.ant2ne.tar.bz2 ./ant2ne/*
cp home.ant2ne.tar.bz2 /backup/home.ant2ne.tar.bz2
ls -lh  /backup/home.ant2ne.tar.bz2 >> /backup/log.txt

#/data/shares/ant2ne
cd /data/shares
du -h –max-depth=1 ./ant2ne >> /backup/log.txt
tar cvpjf ant2ne.tar.bz2 ./ant2ne/*
cp ant2ne.tar.bz2 /backup/ant2ne.tar.bz2
ls -lh  /backup/ant2ne.tar.bz2 >> /backup/log.txt

#/data/shares/mandi
cd /data/shares
du -h –max-depth=1 ./mandi >> /backup/log.txt
tar cvpjf mandi.tar.bz2 ./mandi/* 2>> /backup/errorlog.txt
cp mandi.tar.bz2 /backup/mandi.tar.bz2
ls -lh /backup/mandi.tar.bz2 >> /backup/log.txt

#/data/shares/media/music
cd /data/shares/media
du -h –max-depth=1 ./music >> /backup/log.txt
tar cvpjf music.tar.bz2 ./music/*
cp music.tar.bz2 /backup/music.tar.bz2
ls -lh  /backup/music.tar.bz2 >> /backup/log.txt

#/data/shares/media/MorePictures
cd /data/shares/media
du -h –max-depth=1 ./MorePictures >> /backup/log.txt
tar fcvpj MorePictures.tar.bz2 ./MorePictures/* 2>> /backup/errorlog.txt
cp MorePictures.tar.bz2 /backup/MorePictures.tar.bz2
ls -lh  /backup/MorePictures.tar.bz2 >> /backup/log.txt

#/data/shares/media/pictures
cd /data/shares/media
du -h –max-depth=1 ./pictures >> /backup/log.txt
tar fcvpj pictures.tar.bz2 ./pictures/* 2>> /backup/errorlog.txt
cp pictures.tar.bz2 /backup/pictures.tar.bz2
ls -lh  /backup/pictures.tar.bz2 >> /backup/log.txt

chown ant2ne:root /backup/*.tar.bz2
echo finish >> /backup/log.txt
date >> /backup/log.txt
cp /backup/log.txt /home/ant2ne/Desktop/log.txt

#Need to add archiving every week or so