How to archive the `media` folder of Magento 1?

tar \
	--exclude='*.gz' \
	--exclude='*.mov' \
	--exclude='*.mp4' \
	--exclude='*.ogv' \
	--exclude='*.pdf' \
	--exclude='*.tgz' \
	--exclude='*.webm' \
	--exclude='*.zip' \
	--exclude='./catalog/product/cache' \
	--exclude='./css_secure' \
	--exclude='./js' \
	--exclude='./tmp' \
	--exclude='./upslabelinv' \
	-zcvf ~/${PWD##*/}-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M').tgz .

See also:

Cleanup

• How to delete garbage files?
• How to find big folders?
• How to find big orphaned files?

Archiving

• All files
• Magento 2
  • without not important for development files
  • without not important for development files and product images
  • The media folder
    • with product images
    • without product images
    • a multi-part RAR archive
• Magento 1
  • without not important for development files
  • The media folder
    • with product images