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Exclude backing up specific filetype globally with cpbackup-exclude.conf

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    Sorry to bump an old thread, but this comes up on top in Google and I really don't see it addressed elsewhere. The examples in the documentation for cpbackup-exclude.conf all appear to do with directories. If I want to exclude all of a specific filetype globally on an account, will this syntax work?

    Code:
    *.mp3
*.tar.gz
*.zip
    Thank you.

    -Michael
     
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    I read the documentation, as indicated in my post. I wasn't totally clear on it though. Why, for instance, do the file specific exclusions start with "*/"?

    Code:
    */.wysiwygPro_*
*/core.[0-9]
    In the example I posted I did not specify that, does that make a difference?

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    Yes it makes a difference. From the docs:

    Add the items you asked about to the file on the specific account:
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    *.mp3
*.tar.gz
*.zip
    Next, assuming you have .mp3's on the account, take a backup. Download it and check it for .mp3's.
     
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    The issue is that the account is over 100GB, the backup process is dying before completing, and we're winding up with a 0 byte backup. Those files are taking up ~70Gb of the space, so I was hoping that excluding them would allow the backup to complete, but either the pattern isn't working, or it's still not enough trimmed off.

    I will create a smaller test cpanel with those exclusions and see if it works on there. Thanks.

    -Michael
     
    #5 mvandemar, Dec 22, 2016
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    Hello @mvandemar,

    The "*" character represents a wildcard. For instance, let's say you add:

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    *.mp3
    This will exclude any file that ends with ".mp3". I added this line to /etc/cpbackup-exclude.conf on a test system and confirmed that a file named "123.mp3" in the "/home/$username/public_html" directory was excluded from the backup generation.

    Thank you.
     
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