Tar Magento Media directory excluding cache files

tar_magento_media_exclude.sh

tar -cvf ~/media-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar --exclude-vcs --exclude='*.htaccess' --exclude='*/cache/*' --exclude='*/cache' --exclude='*/.thumbs/*' --exclude='*/.thumbs' --exclude='*/tmp/*' --exclude='*/tmp' --exclude='*/js/*' --exclude='*/js' --exclude='*/css/*' --exclude='*/css' --exclude='*/captcha/*' --exclude='*/captcha' --exclude='*/css_secure/*' --exclude='*/css_secure' --exclude='*/customer/*' --exclude='*/customer' --exclude='*/dhl/*' --exclude='*/dhl' --exclude='*/downloadable/*' --exclude='*/downloadable' --exclude='*/xmlconnect/*' --exclude='*/xmlconnect' media