I'm trying to create a tar archive of a folder `thisfolder` but want to omit a sub-folder named `notthisfolder`. Can someone show me how to do this? I've tried to tar'ing the entire folder and removing the one I want to omit but that particular folder is 17gb.

```
\thisfolder
  file1
  file2
  \notthisfolder
    omitfile1
    omitfile2
  \butincludethisfolder
    includefile1
    infludefile2

```

I was using `tar --exclude='notthisfolder' -zcvpf archive.tar /thisfolder/`