# Logfile for errors, >&2 and any errors printed by tar/gzip/etc
exec 2> /path/to/errorlog
# Logfile for files, captures default stdout
exec 1> /path/to/filelog

TSTAMP=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
TARBALL=/path/to/folder/$TSTAMP-one.tar

echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') $0 Beginning execution" >&2

echo "# Archiving to $TARBALL"

if [ -e "$TARBALL" ] || [ -e "$TARBALL".gz ]
then
        echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') $TARBALL already exists, refusing to overwrite" >&2
        exit 1
fi

tar -rf "$TARBALL" # Create empty tar file to append to

echo ls -ltr "$@"

if ! echo tar -rvf /absolute/path/to/archive.tar "$@"
then
        echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') Creating archive failed" >&2
        rm -f "$TARBALL"
        exit 1
fi

if ! gzip "$TARBALL"
then
        echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') Couldn't compress $TARBALL" >&2
        exit 1
fi

if ! echo rm "$@"
then
        echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') Error removing files" >&2
        exit 1
fi

echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') $0 completed successfully"

find .... -print | xargs archive_and_delete

find .... -print0 | xargs -0 archive_and_delete

find .... -exec archive_and_delete {} '+'