diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9b3b25dae..54275283a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@
 	name, based on new property names. Added all new clashing
 	properties to bannedProps.
 
+2012-03-02  Jean Raby  <jraby@inverse.ca>
+
+	* Scripts/sogo-backup.sh: new script to automate backups.
+	Updated sogo.cron to include a commented out entry for sogo-backup.sh
+	Include updates.php in the packages
+
 2012-03-01  Wolfgang Sourdeau  <wsourdeau@inverse.ca>
 
 	* SoObjects/SOGo/LDAPSource.m (_convertRecordToLDAPAttributes):
diff --git a/Scripts/sogo-backup.sh b/Scripts/sogo-backup.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..58cffa445
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Scripts/sogo-backup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -o pipefail
+
+set -x
+PROGNAME="$(basename $0)"
+
+BACKUP_DIR=/home/sogo/backups
+SOGO_TOOL=/usr/sbin/sogo-tool
+DAYS_TO_KEEP="30"
+
+DATE=$(date +%F_%H%M)
+LOG="logger -t $PROGNAME -p daemon.info"
+
+# log to stdout if on a tty
+tty -s && LOG="cat -"
+
+function initChecks {
+  if [ ! -d "$BACKUP_DIR" ]; then
+    mkdir -m700  -p "$BACKUP_DIR" 
+    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+  	  echo "BACKUP_DIR doesn't exist and couldn't create it, aborting ($BACKUP_DIR)" | $LOG
+  	  exit 1
+    fi
+  fi
+
+  if [ ! -w "$BACKUP_DIR" ]; then
+    echo "$BACKUP_DIR not writable. Aborting" | $LOG
+    exit 1
+  fi
+}
+
+function removeOldBackups {
+
+  if [ ! -z $DRYRUN ]; then
+    RM="echo \"not deleted\""
+  else
+    RM="rm -rf"
+  fi
+  
+  echo "Deleting old backups..." | $LOG
+  find ${BACKUP_DIR}/ -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname "sogo-*" -mtime "+$DAYS_TO_KEEP" -ls -exec $RM {} \; 2>&1 | $LOG
+  echo "Done deleting old backups." | $LOG
+}
+
+
+function dumpit {
+  mkdir -m700  "$BACKUP_DIR/sogo-${DATE}" 2>&1  | $LOG
+  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  $SOGO_TOOL backup "$BACKUP_DIR/sogo-${DATE}/" ALL 2>&1 | $LOG
+  RC=$?
+  if [ $RC -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo -e "FAILED, error while dumping sogo data" | $LOG
+    exit $RC
+  else
+    echo -e "OK: dumped sogo data" | $LOG
+  fi
+}
+
+echo "$PROGNAME starting" | $LOG
+initChecks
+dumpit
+removeOldBackups
+echo "$PROGNAME exiting" | $LOG
+
+
diff --git a/Scripts/sogo.cron b/Scripts/sogo.cron
index 17b796820..350c2d50f 100644
--- a/Scripts/sogo.cron
+++ b/Scripts/sogo.cron
@@ -6,3 +6,10 @@
 
 # Email alarms - runs every minutes
 #* * * * *       sogo	/usr/sbin/sogo-ealarms-notify
+
+# Daily backups
+#   - writes to /home/sogo/backups/ by default
+#   - will keep 31 days worth of backups by default
+#   - runs once a day by default, but can run more frequently
+#   - make sure to set the path to sogo-backup.sh correctly
+#30 0 * * *  sogo  /usr/share/doc/sogo/sogo-backups.sh
diff --git a/debian/sogo.docs b/debian/sogo.docs
index 0ebd68c03..02b9d95c5 100644
--- a/debian/sogo.docs
+++ b/debian/sogo.docs
@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@ Scripts/sql-update-1.2.2_to_1.3.0-mysql.sh
 Scripts/sql-update-1.3.3_to_1.3.4.sh
 Scripts/sql-update-1.3.3_to_1.3.4-mysql.sh
 Scripts/sql-update-1.3.11_to_1.3.12.sh
-Scripts/sql-update-1.3.11_to_1.3.12-mysql.sh
\ No newline at end of file
+Scripts/sql-update-1.3.11_to_1.3.12-mysql.sh
+Scripts/sogo-backup.sh
+Scripts/updates.php
diff --git a/sogo.spec b/sogo.spec
index 5a8e6e148..8d6a15105 100644
--- a/sogo.spec
+++ b/sogo.spec
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ rm -fr ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/cron.d/sogo
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/httpd/conf.d/SOGo.conf
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/sogo
-%doc ChangeLog NEWS Scripts/sql*sh
+%doc ChangeLog NEWS Scripts/*sh Scripts/updates.php
 
 %files -n sogo-tool
 %{_sbindir}/sogo-tool