It's squawking about your strftime. In a new script, try just this:

use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
my ($m, $y) = strftime ("%b %Y", localtime) =~ m|(\S+)\s(\S+)|;
print "$m $y";
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That should get you further...

Update:

• For monthly cron's, you might want to cron on the first of the next month and simply get "yesterday's" date. That way you don't have to fight the 28th/29th/30th/31st thing in crontab. And it may save you from checking the files' mtimes, if the application will have begun writing to a new monthly directory. And if you don't mind backticking, GNU date has this slick feature: date --date '1 day ago' '+%b %Y'.
• You'll probably want to allow yourself to pass in the month and year, or default to the programmatic values. Backups have a way of needing a retro-run.

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