Compressing Magento 2 Media Directory

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Compressing Magento 2 Media Directory

Let's say you have something like this on your media structure.

pub/
|-- errors
|-- media
|   |-- catalog
|   |   |-- category
|   |   |-- placeholder
|   |   |-- product
|   |   |   |-- a
|   |   |   |-- b
|   |   |   |-- c
|   |   |   |-- cache
|   |   |   |-- placeholder
|   |-- placeholder
|   |   `-- placeholder
|   |       `-- default
|   |-- tmp
|   |   |-- catalog
|   |   |   `-- product
|   |   `-- design
|   |       `-- file
|   `-- wysiwyg
|-- opt
|   `-- magento
|       `-- var
`-- static
    |-- adminhtml
    `-- frontend

Some of these directories may take a huge amout of disk space and they don't need to be compressed. It's the case for pub/media/catalog/product/cache and pub/media/tmp directories, for instance.

tar --exclude='catalog/product/cache' --exclude='tmp' -czpf media.tar.gz pub/media