Cron question

[jimlongo]

I have a cron job that I use to backup the folder of a domain . . . it goes something like this
cd /home; tar -czvf ../_BACKUP/bu_RDIV.tar.gz rdiv

this would create a file called bu_RDIV.tar.gz in the home/_BACKUP folder of the contents of the folder rdiv.

Now I have another domain/folder called jim that I want to backup - this folder contains a folder called media that is much too large for me to want to backup with a cron job. It never changes and I already have a backup locally. Is there a way to modify this scrip so that i backup the contents of the folder jim except for the folder media ?

THanks,
jim

[jimlongo]

In case it helps someone else, I found a solution in the man pages for tar

--exclude pattern
Do not process files or directories that match the specified pattern. Note
that exclusions take precedence over patterns or filenames specified on the
command line.

so something like this will copy the entire contents of the public_html folder except for the media folder to a file called backupFile.tar.gz

cd /home/accountname; tar -czvf backupFile.tar.gz --exclude media public_html