Question Exclude specific files from the backup

[Peter76]

I want to make a complete backup via Tools & Settings>Backup Manager
How I can use "Exclude specific files from the backup" to exclude a specific domain folder like
/var/www/vhosts/<domain>/httpdocs/>folder>/*
This setting did not work :-(

 

[gbotica]

Hi there,

Try this (the paths are relative to webspace root)

**/{folder}/

For example, we use these rules to exclude backup files and a few other paths from our backups:

**/*backup*.zip
**/*backup*.gz
**/*backup*.tmp
**/*updraft*.zip
**/*back-up*.zip
**/wp-content/cache
**/.well-known/acme-challenge

 

[Peter76]

This did not help :-(

 

[fogelf]

Hello!

1. Create subscription with default document root
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root@a10-52-31-63 httpdocs]# pwd
/var/www/vhosts/d1.a10-52-31-63.qa.plesk.ru/httpdocs
[root@a10-52-31-63 httpdocs]# ls do_not_packup_me
1 2 3
[root@a10-52-31-63 httpdocs]#
------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. Want to exclude from backup /var/www/vhosts/d1.a10-52-31-63.qa.plesk.ru/httpdocs/do_not_packup_me/2
3. Go to Home > Tools & Settings > Back Up the Server and click "Exclude specific files from the backup", type "/httpdocs/do_not_packup_me/2"
4. Perform server backup
5. Check backup content:
[root@a10-52-31-63 d1.a10-52-31-63.qa.plesk.ru]# tar -tzf backup_user-data_1910031034_1910031331.tgz | grep do_not_packup_me
httpdocs/do_not_packup_me/
httpdocs/do_not_packup_me/1
httpdocs/do_not_packup_me/3
[root@a10-52-31-63 d1.a10-52-31-63.qa.plesk.ru]#

As U can see exclude element "/httpdocs/do_not_packup_me/2" is missed in archive.

 

[agaitan]

but, what about if i migrate from cpanel? all my content is here for example: /var/www/vhosts/panamahitradio.net/public_html/*

i need to exclude that domain from backup. How i do it?

thank you

 

[IgorG]

How i do it?

Have you tried this method?

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