Excluding directory when creating a .tar.gz file
问题 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