Exclude dir on tar files

[cesarlwh]

Hi, how to exclude one dir on tar files?

example:

List off the files and dirs to tar:

test/
config/
temp/
picture.jpg
doc.txt

I need to tar all files, but not the dir test/ how to i make this with the tar command?

I testing with the option --exclude=test but on this mode, all files and dirs named test are excluded from tar... and i need to exclude only exact path(/backups)

[Infopro]

Try this thread for some help there.

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread....backup-exclude