Pls help with little bash script

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• Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:25:43 +0700
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Hi all,
I want to automate backup process into crontab.
What I usually manually do is:
tar zcvf filename-date.tar.gz /somedirectory

Can anyone help me with the script needed that can include the date in the 
filename?
Thanks.
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