diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c0fc1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/data/cloud
+/backup
diff --git a/backup.sh b/backup.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f89e5da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+
+# backup directory
+backupDir=./backup
+mkdir -p ${backupDir}
+mkdir -p ${backupDir}/cloud-data
+mkdir -p ${backupDir}/conf
+mkdir -p ${backupDir}/db
+
+# current date
+currentDate=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
+
+
+# backup mysql
+dbFile="${backupDir}/db/${currentDate}.sql"
+docker-compose exec nextcloud-database sh -c 'exec mysqldump --lock-tables --default-character-set=utf8mb4 -uroot -p"${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}" ${MYSQL_DATABASE}' > ${dbFile}
+sed -i "/^mysqldump: \\[Warning\\]/d" ${dbFile}
+tar -cj ${dbFile} -f "${dbFile}.tbz2"
+rm ${dbFile}
+
+# backup repositories
+tar -cj data/cloud -f "${backupDir}/cloud-data/${currentDate}.tbz2"
+
+# backup config files
+tar -cj data/conf -f "${backupDir}/conf/${currentDate}.tbz2"
+
+# delete all files older 30 days
+#find ${backupDir} -iname "*.tbz2" -type f -mtime +10 -exec rm {} \; > /dev/null