How to tarball a directory without carrying over /path/to/folder?
Solution 1:
tar -C /path/to/folder -cvjf /path/for/acrhive.tar.bz2 source
-C (uppercase) means 'change directory', so your file specification becomes relative to the path provided with -C
Solution 2:
There are many ways to accomplish that, but this is probably the simplest:
cd /path/to/folder
tar -cvjf /past/to/destination.tar.bz2 source