tar -cjf site1.tar.bz2 -C /var/www/site1 . In the above example, tar will change to directory /var/www/site1 before doing its thing because the option -C /var/www/site1 was given. From man tar: OTHER OPTIONS -C, –directory DIR change to directory DIR
Use the -C switch of tar: tar -czvf my_directory.tar.gz -C my_directory . The -C my_directory tells tar to change the current directory to my_directory, and then . means “add the entire current directory” (including hidden files and sub-directories). Make sure you do -C my_directory before you do . or else you’ll get the files in … Read more
You can have multiple exclude options for tar so $ tar –exclude=”./folder” –exclude=”./upload/folder2″ -zcvf /backup/filename.tgz . etc will work. Make sure to put –exclude before the source and destination items.