That's nothing special or impressive, but I use this script to make backup of my private files. It creates ~/backup-$DATE directory, puts there archived stuff and computes md5 sums. I hope somebody will find it useful. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $day=`date "+%Y%m%d"`;
chomp $day;

# directories in $HOME I want to archive only
my @taronly=('releases', 'tajne');

# directories in $HOME I want to archive and compress
my @targzip=('perl', 'szkola', 'projects', 'sync', 'grafika', 'public_
+html',
    'ethernet', 'svn');

chdir;

die if system("mkdir backup-$day");

foreach (@taronly)
{
    print "Archiving $_...\n";
    die if system("tar cf backup-$day/$_-$day.tar $_");
}

foreach (@targzip)
{
    print "Archiving and compressing $_...\n";
    die if system("tar czf backup-$day/$_-$day.tar.gz $_");
}
chdir "backup-$day";

print "Computing md5 checksums...\n";
die if system("md5sum * > sums.md5");

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In reply to Just another backup script by chomzee

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