Trailling spaces break sample code

Bug #1708195 reported by Mark Rogers
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR

The sample code under the "Alternate backup" section has multiple lines with trailing spaces after the backslash line continuation character. The result is that a copy and paste of this command will break, generating confusing errors, eg:
   --exclude=/media: not found

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