Hi!
On this page I found the description of how to exclude/skip data from backup:
https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/akeeba-backup-documentation/exclude-data-from-backup.html
And here I found infos on how to exclude/skip data using RegEx:
https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/akeeba-backup-documentation/regex-files-directories-exclusion.html
How can I skip files (ideally using RegEx) older than a certain date in a directory and its subdirectories?
Thank you very much in advance for your valuable help!
Kind regards,
Gerald
#35370 How to skip files in a directory and its subdirectories older than a certain date?
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Latest post by on Thursday, 15 July 2021 20:17 CDT
Thursday, 10 June 2021 09:29 CDT
gba
Thursday, 10 June 2021 10:24 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
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There is no such feature. You could have two backup profiles, though. One would back up the entire site without the folder. The other would only back up the folder and have the date filter applied to it. Without knowing more about the use case I can't tell you if it is a convenient method for what you're trying to achieve, though.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
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Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:06 CDT
gba
Hi!
Thank you very much for your quick reply!
I am sorry, I expressed myself a bit misleadingly:
I did not mean files older than a certain date, but files older than a certain time period (i. e. 3 years, 5 months or 13 days).
How can I skip such files?
Kind regards,
GeraldHi!
Thank you very much for your quick reply!
I am sorry, I expressed myself a bit misleadingly:
I did not mean files older than a certain date, but files older than a certain time period (i. e. 3 years, 5 months or 13 days).
How can I skip such files?
Kind regards,
Gerald
Friday, 11 June 2021 02:22 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You can't. There is no such feature. At best you could do the two backup profiles approach I explained with the second profile being of the Incremental Files Only backup type but it's still not quite what you seem to be looking for. It is, however, something which does work with most use cases where someone asked something like you did, e.g. a large media folder with a lot of historic content that doesn't get modified after it's created and doesn't make sense to be backing up in every singe backup.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!
Tuesday, 15 June 2021 03:10 CDT
gba
Hi!
Thank you very much for that approach - it sounds very good and I will give it a try.
Kind regards,
Gerald
Tuesday, 15 June 2021 05:34 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You're welcome!
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!
Thursday, 15 July 2021 20:17 CDT
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