#!/bin/bash
USERNAME=robbat2
HOMEDIR=/home/$USERNAME
TARFILE=gentoo-dev-homedir-backup-$USERNAME-`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`.tar.bz2
BACKUPLOCATION=./backups # relative to HOMEDIR
EXCLUDEFILE=./.backup-exclude # relative to HOMEDIR, should contain relative paths only
TAROPT="-C $HOMEDIR --exclude=$BACKUPLOCATION --exclude-from $EXCLUDEFILE"
TARFILE_FULL="$HOMEDIR/$BACKUPLOCATION/$TARFILE"
touch $HOMEDIR/$EXCLUDEFILE
mkdir -p $HOMEDIR/$BACKUPLOCATION
cd $HOMEDIR
tar cpjf $TARFILE_FULL . $TAROPT
ret=$?
case $ret in
    0) echo "DONE $TARFILE_FULL" ;;
    *) echo "FAIL $TARFILE_FULL" ;;
esac