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I have a backup of a website that I created using the tar command below:

tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs

I see that in the archive file, it has saved the entire path (/var/www...) and when I try to restore it, all these folders are created in the destination folder. Should I use the below command instead to backup the website?

tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz -C /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs .

and restore the backup using this?

tar -xvpzf backup.tar.gz -C /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs --numeric-owner

You may also suggest a better backup method for my situation - I need to backup the files and database dump of a website to a single .tgz file and store in my external HDD.

Note: I'm also considering Duplicity. http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

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If I understand correctly, you want to unpack the files without the directory structure. Looking at this question - tar – extract discarding directory structure - I've found the option that works for me:

zcat backup.tar.gz | pax -v -r -s '/.*\///p'
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