Is there a way to exclude pdf documents from backup, particularly in the Uploads folder?/
If not, can this be added as a feature.
Thanks,
#35320 Exclude backup by file type
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Latest post by [email protected] on Thursday, 03 June 2021 02:16 CDT
Monday, 31 May 2021 02:50 CDT
nicholas
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Yes. This is what the RegEx File and Directories Exclusion does. The documentation of this feature does in fact include an example for excluding files by type.
Since you want to exclude all PDF files from wp-content/uploads you need to create a new RegEx filter of the type Exclude File with the content
#^wp-content/uploads/(.*)\.pdf$#i
This will match all files with extensions .pdf, .PDF, .Pdf and any other upper- and lowercase combinations of the letters of the PDF extension (remember that for your Linux server the files foo.pdf and foo.PDF are two different files, unlike Windows and most macOS installations).
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Thursday, 03 June 2021 02:16 CDT
Thanks Nicholas. I would prefer if there was a non developer type option for file exclusions, but this is fine for now :)