Hi,
I hope this is the right place to send a feature request.
I'm using Akeeba to backup and restore over 200 websites for small customers. My choice for Akeeba was because it is the most powerfull and best configurable plugin tool for the job.
Before I ask for a feature, here's a brief description of how I back up:
I do daily full backups of my client sites, keep them for 7 days, and then delete them except for the version of the first day of the month. These monthly backups I'll keep for one year. So I'll be able to have backup in case a site is hacked and we recognize it weeks or months later.
So for each website, I have 19 backups, every time a full backup. My backup storage is cheap, so space is not the issue, but the server load backing up large sites is high.
Now to my question:
Usually most of the data in a Wordpress website are in the /wp-content/uploads and there in the years folders. Due to this storage system Wordrpess uses, data in past year folders are not changed anymore.
To get backups small and fast, it would be great to have a complete backup and then, for the next backups, exclude all year folders in the upload folder except the latest year.
Ok, I could do this with the directory exclusion, but then I have to change it every year for every site. I also took a look at the incremental feature, but I remember that I read somewhere that this is not a good idea to use it as standard.
Maybe especially for the Wordpress Version of Akeeba it could be a nice feature to have an option (checkbox) to automaticly exclude the past years folders in uploads.
Best
Alex
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