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#19326 RegEx Directory Exclusion

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Latest post by jayrigby on Tuesday, 25 February 2014 03:30 CST

Tuesday, 25 February 2014 02:33 CST

jayrigby

Description of my issue:

Hi there,

I have a very large backup at the moment, the cause of this is a large number of source images in K2 articles. So I decided to exclude all the src directories containing large original jpgs from the backups.

I have selected my default profile and chosen RegEx Files and Directories Exclusion

From here I have added a new filter for:

Exclude Directory #/\src$#

The src directories are located in many subdirectories of media/k2/galleries/###/src

My intention is to exclude all src directories and their contents from the backup.

Unfortunately, once the backup has completed the directories and files have not been excluded.

Am I missing something?

I tried excluding all .jpg files with:

Exclude files #\.jpg$#i

And it works perfectly.

How come there is an issue with the directories?

Really appreciate your help.

Best wishes,
Jay

Tuesday, 25 February 2014 03:07 CST

nicholas

The directory exclusion filter should read:
#/src$#
as the path separator internally used by PHP is the UNIX one (forward slash). Actually, Windows DOES understand the forward slash as a path separator! It always did. Even MS-DOS did. There are historical reasons why MS-DOS and Windows ended up using the backslash as the default path separator, but the UNIX separator was never dropped. Google it :)

Anyway. I believe that your approach is not the correct one. We now have a better solution in Akeeba Backup 3.10.x (you need to upgrade to 3.10.1). Go to the Configuration page. In the File Scanner drop-down select the "Large Site Scanner". It has a better chance to work without excluding the src directories from your site.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Tuesday, 25 February 2014 03:30 CST

jayrigby

Thanks Nicholas,

That did the trick - the backup is 400mb+ smaller now!

I tried your suggestion with the .1 update and the Large Site Scanner - but strangely enough the backup increase in size....

Thanks for the fast reply and your help. Excellent component!

Best wishes,
Jay

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