{"id":228,"date":"2021-07-23T12:25:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/how-to-exclude-files-from-backups\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:25:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T12:25:57","slug":"how-to-exclude-files-from-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/how-to-exclude-files-from-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Exclude Files from Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Valid for versions 82 through the latest version<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Overview<\/h2>\n

To exclude files or directories from your user backups, perform either of the following actions:<\/p>\n

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    Exclude the files from all users\u2019 backups<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Exclude the files from an individual user\u2019s backups.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The global and local exclude files apply to the account backups that you manage in WHM\u2019s Backup<\/em> section (WHM >> Home >> Backup<\/em>) and the Download a Full Website Backup<\/em> feature in cPanel\u2019s Backup<\/em> interface (cPanel >> Home >> Files >> Backup<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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      If you initiate a Home Directory<\/em> backup in cPanel\u2019s Backup<\/em> interface (cPanel >> Home >> Files >> Backup<\/em>), the global and local exclude files do not<\/strong> affect the contents of the backup file.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      If you perform a backup with the \/scripts\/pkgacct<\/code> script, the global and local exclude files do not<\/strong> affect the contents of the backup file.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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      The backup-exclude.conf<\/code> files only<\/strong> apply to files or directories in a user\u2019s home directory. They do not<\/strong> apply to files or directories outside of a user\u2019s home directory.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

      Global exclude file<\/h2>\n

      To exclude files or directories from your backups for all user accounts, add those files or directories to the \/etc\/cpbackup-exclude.conf<\/code> file. The \/etc\/cpbackup-exclude.conf<\/code> file excludes the files that you specify relative to any location from which the backup script runs.<\/p>\n

      The backup system excludes the following files and directories for all users\u2019 backups by default:<\/p>\n

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      *\/<\/span>.wysiwygPro_<\/span>*<\/span>\n*\/<\/span>core<\/span>.[0<\/span>-<\/span>9<\/span>]\n.MirrorSearch<\/span>\n.cpan<\/span>\n.cpanel<\/span>\/<\/span>caches<\/span>\n.cpanel<\/span>\/<\/span>datastore<\/span>\n.cpcpan<\/span>\n.sqmailattach<\/span>\naccess<\/span>-<\/span>logs<\/span>\npublic_ftp<\/span>\/<\/span>.ftpquota<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
      Local exclude file<\/h2>\n
      To exclude files or directories from an individual user\u2019s backups, add the desired paths (relative to the user\u2019s home directory) to the cpbackup-exclude.conf<\/code> file in the user\u2019s home directory, with one entry per line.<\/p>\n
      If the file does not already exist, you must<\/strong> create it. To do this, run the following command:<\/p>\n
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      touch \/home\/username\/cpbackup-exclude.conf<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
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        In this example, username<\/code> represents the name of the user who owns the files or directories.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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        If you enter a directory name, the backup system excludes all of the files that exist in the directory.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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        When you specify files, do not<\/strong> include leading or trailing characters of any kind, such as slashes (\/<\/code>) or periods (.<\/code>).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
        Example<\/h2>\n
        For example, to exclude the \/home\/username\/example\/<\/code> directory and the \/home\/username\/dir\/example.php<\/code> file from the username<\/code> user\u2019s backups, create the following \/home\/username\/cpbackup-exclude.conf<\/code> file:<\/p>\n
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        example<\/span>\/<\/span>\ndir<\/span>\/<\/span>example<\/span>.php<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
        Valid for versions 82 through the latest version Version: 82 Overview To exclude files or directories from your user backups, perform either of the following actions: Exclude the files from all users\u2019 backups Exclude the files from an individual user\u2019s backups. The global and local exclude files apply to the account backups that you manage …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssdsunucum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}