Magento 2 - Directories to exclude when tarballing a site

Magento 2 - tar exclusion parameters.MD

Exclusion List

List of exclusion paramters for tar command. Focus put on image cache directories, tmp files, log files, and generated source files.

• --exclude="./pub/media/*/*/cache"
• --exclude="./pub/media/js"
• --exclude="./pub/media/tmp"
• --exclude="./pub/media/wysiwyg/.thumbs"
• --exclude="./pub/static"
• --exclude="./var/cache"
• --exclude="./var/di"
• --exclude="./var/generation"
• --exclude="./var/log"
• --exclude="./var/page_cache"
• --exclude="./var/report"
• --exclude="./var/view_preprocessed"

raw

--exclude="./pub/media/*/*/cache" --exclude="./pub/media/js" --exclude="./pub/media/tmp" --exclude="./pub/media/wysiwyg/.thumbs" --exclude="./pub/static" --exclude="./var/cache" --exclude="./var/di" --exclude="./var/generation" --exclude="./var/log" --exclude="./var/page_cache" --exclude="./var/report" --exclude="./var/view_preprocessed"