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