[NCLUG] Oops,

[Steve Wolf]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Zak Smith <zak at computer.org> wrote:

> Just use --exclude=PATTERN from the tar man page. Alternatively look
> at --one-file-system.   Either way is a good way to do it.
>

I agree.  --exclude makes your life much easier.  --recursion is the
default behavior in tar, so I'd suggest

#!/bin/sh
pushd /home
tar cvzpPf /mnt/UserBackup/BKkerrym2.tar.gz \
  --exclude=kerrym2/KerrysStuff \
  --exclude=kerrym2/Pictures \
  --exclude=kerrym2/Downloads \
  --exclude=kerrym2/.wine/drive_c \
  kerrym2
popd
echo -e "\nBKkerrym2.sh done"
return

Regards,
Steve