Excluding directories when tar/gzipping

You can exclude directories when tar/gzipping folders in the following way:

tar -cvf httpdocs_bk.tar.gz /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/site
--exclude "/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/site/excludeddir1"
--exclude "/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/site/excludeddir2"

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