Backup Exclusions not working

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  • February 27, 2017 at 6:04 pm #196202
    paulirvine
    Participant

    Hoping there is an easy fix to this one guys, this is driving me nuts.

    (Uploads) Exclude these: backup*,*backups,backwpup*,wp-clone,backupbuddy,backupbuddy_backups,pb_backupbuddy

    wp-content Exclude these: upgrade,cache,updraft,backup*,*backups,backupbuddy_backups

    However, backupbuddy directory STILL causing issues, here is two messages I receive:

    Warning: A very large file was encountered: home/wp-content/uploads/backupbuddy_backups/backup-pirvine_com_home-2015_08_09-07_37pm-full-q0h3v7r1sa.zip (size: 427.5 Mb)

    Warning: A very large file was encountered: home/wp-content/uploads/backupbuddy_backups/backup-pirvine_com_home-2015_06_26-01_43pm-full-vmj5npvbvx.zip (size: 943.3 Mb)

    So I’m telling UpdraftPlus to exclude these, yet they’re still being included in the backup, resulting in horrendously large files.

    Help please?
    Thanks,
    Paul.

    February 27, 2017 at 8:10 pm #196229
    udadmin
    Keymaster

    Hi Paul,

    The path given isn’t part of that site’s “uploads” hierarchy – it’s part of the uploads hierarchy of a secondary WP website which is in a subdirectory ‘home’ within the first WP website. As such, you want to exclude “home” from the WP core backup, because presently you’re backing up a second site (which would be better to do from within that site).

    David

    February 27, 2017 at 8:47 pm #196236
    paulirvine
    Participant

    Thanks for the quick reply udadmin,

    It’s the scenario of this WP site being in public_html.

    I thought that updraftplus would only backup normal WP related directories and ignore the others unless otherwise specified?

    If I’ve misunderstood this, it would explain some other similar issues I’ve had on other sites :)

    Thanks,
    Paul.

    February 28, 2017 at 7:46 pm #196429
    Dee Nutbourne
    Moderator

    Hi Paul,

    If you are backing up the WordPress Core files, UpdraftPlus will backup anything that it finds in the WordPress root directory. In this case, this includes the other site directories.

    Best Wishes,
    David N

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