tar tips

If you want to make a tar of a folder, a typical examle :-
You have a mount, say, /servermount/swfcopy, in which you have to copy a folder foo to ur box.
Do like this
cd /servermount/swfcopy
tar cvf /where_to_keep_folder/filename.tar ./foo
say, tar cvf /export/home/myfolder/foo.tar ./foo