Question

How I can create tar archive without some folders?

Now I’m creating tar archive of folder and deleting some folders from it. But it is takes long time.

Structure:

www
– sub f 1
– sub f 2
– sub f 3

need create archive only with folders (sub f 1) and (sub f 2)
(It is only for example, my really structure have more sub levels)

Thanks!

Answer 1

Does this works ?

tar -cf backup.tar --exclude "www/subf3" www
// is your directory with spaces?