NEED HELP excluding directories – backups are too big

  • Resolved aly22

    (@aly22)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    Seems that after a recent update I can no longer set up exclude
    directories? My backups were about 2GB and suddenly 22GB — effectively filling up my server disk space without my knowledge.

    I need to exclude several directories — but now when I click Settings, nothing is saved. When I click excludes, nothing is saved. I cannot even edit the backup scheduling. Nothing!

    Latest version WP, BackupWordPress and etc.

    Is there at least a way to manually edit the excludes file?

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/

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  • Plugin Author Tom Willmot

    (@willmot)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    You can manually set the exclude by defining the HMBKP_EXCLUDE constant in your wp-config.php

    See the inline help on the backups page for more details (Click the help tab thats in the top right hand corner of the screen when on the manage backups page).

    Thread Starter aly22

    (@aly22)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Ok, perhaps I need to reinstall the plugin — when I click “Help” nothing happens. Can I just overwrite the plugin directory?

    Thread Starter aly22

    (@aly22)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Sorry … ok Tom: Do I go into wp-config.php and literally list all directories to exclude?

    I tried a reinstall but no luck. Nothing works or saves (add schedule, add excludes, etc) I imagine there is a plugin conflict perhaps?

    Plugin Author Tom Willmot

    (@willmot)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    It does sound like you have a conflict, probably a JS error, especially if you can’t click help.

    Define excludes like this

    define( ‘HMBKP_EXCLUDES’, ‘dir1/, dir2/, file.php’ );

    Note that directories must end with a /

    Thread Starter aly22

    (@aly22)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks, Tom!
    I walked away for a few days. Was about to do the manual exclude edits and for some odd reason, the js started working (with a few timeouts on Firefox, I got it working on Chrome). Was able to exclude directories outside of WP that were bogging down the backups. Got it to 435MB instead of 22GB. Phew! Thank you for the help!

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