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#37673 How to back up and exclude a file or folder

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Latest post by tampe125 on Monday, 05 September 2022 02:24 CDT

Sunday, 04 September 2022 09:49 CDT

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Hello Support,

 

I have a website with a huge mp4 folder.   Please explain or point me to documentation on how I can back up

my site but exclude this folder.   In other words I want the status of this  folder to remain unchanged with a restoration.

 

1. The mp4 folder is huge and backing up and restoring takes a long time with the mp4 folder. With out this folder the site is relatively small and

backing up and restoring is quick.

 

2. This folder does not change often so I would like to back up and save a version of the website with that excludes mp4 folder so that  I can

restore quickly this live site in case of emergency.

 

Thanks

 

 

 

Monday, 05 September 2022 02:24 CDT

tampe125

Hello,

the feature you're looking for is called Files and Directory Exclusion, you can read more about it here: https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/akeeba-backup-documentation/exclude-data-from-backup.html#files-and-directories-exclusion

Davide Tampellini

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