Exempting directories in TAR backups

Hi all,
Although this is a Unix question, I suppose anyone using user managed backups may have encountered this problem:
Let's suppose I've got a directory /u01 and subdirectories a,b,c....up to Z in that directory (ie.u01). If I need to tar up all directories with the exemption_ of x,y and z, what command do I need to run to achieve this.
Regards
Baffy

Hi Laura,
Thanks for your help so far. If I've got 3 directories to exemp (samples01, samples03, samples03), which of the following would be correct:
a) $ tar -cvf sam.tar * --exclude samples01 samples02 samples03
------or-------
b) $ tar -cvf sam.tar * exclude samples01 exclude samples02 --exclude samples03
Regards

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