For the website I work on for my company I have a very large number of files in a single folder that is strictly data for the clients and not data I have to regularly modify. So when I’m doing a tarball/gzip of my files on the server I need to exclude that folder and all it’s subfolders from the process, here it is:
~# tar -czf /home/test/download.tgz ./ --exclude="*/events/auto/*" --exclude="*/images/waveforms/*"Till Next Time