Excluding directory when creating a tar gz file

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I have a  public html  folder  in that folder there s a  tmp  folder that has like 70gb of files I don t really need   Now I am trying to create a  tar gz of  public html  excluding  tmp   This is the command I ran   tar -pczf MyBackup tar gz  home user public html  --exclude   home user public html tmp      The tar is still being created  and by doing an ls -sh I can see that MyBackup tar gz already has about 30gb  and I know for sure that  public html  without  tmp  doesn t have more than 1GB of files   What did I do wrong

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tar -pczf  lt target file tar gz gt  --exclude  path to exclude --exclude  another path to exclude    path to include   another path to include    Tested in Ubuntu 19 10    The   after exclude is optional  You can use   instead of space after keyword exclude if you like  Parameter exclude must be placed before the source  The difference between use folder name  like the 1st  or the    like the 2nd  is  the 2nd one will include an empty folder in package but the 1st will not

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Try removing the last   at the end of the directory path to exclude  tar -pczf MyBackup tar gz  home user public html  --exclude   home user public html tmp

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Yes  remove the trailing   and  at least in ubuntu 11 04  all the paths given must be relative or full path  You can t mix absolute and relative paths in the same command   sudo tar -czvf 2011 10 24 tar gz   start-directory --exclude  home user start-directory logs    will not exclude logs directory but  sudo tar -czvf 2011 10 24 tar gz   start-directory --exclude    start-directory logs    will work

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This worked for me   tar -zcvf target tar gz target  --exclude  target backups  --exclude  target cache

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The correct command for exclude directory from compression is    tar --exclude    folder  --exclude    upload folder2  -zcvf backup tar gz backup    Make sure to put --exclude before the source and destination items    and you can check the contents of the tar gz file without unzipping     tar -tf backup tar gz

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Try this  tar -pczvf advancedarts tar gz  home user public html  --exclude  home user public html tmp

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The accepted answer did not work for me  running unxutils tar on windows10  Instead  I had to put the files dirs to archive as the last parameter  like this   tar -pczf MyBackup tar gz --exclude   home user public html tmp    home user public html    Then it worked

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Try moving the --exclude to before the include   tar -pczf MyBackup tar gz --exclude   home user public html tmp    home user public html

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You can also exclude more than one using only one --exclude  Like this example   tar -pczf MyBackup tar gz --exclude    home user public html tmp    home user public html data    home user public html    In --exclude  you must finish the directory name without   and must in between MyBackup tar gz and  home user public html   The syntax is   tar  lt OPTIONS gt   lt TARBALL WILL CREATE gt   lt ARGS gt   lt PATH TO COMPRESS gt

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The exclude option needs to include the   sign and   are not required   --exclude  home user public html tmp

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