Backup directory location and exclusion

  • Resolved duanemitchell

    (@duanemitchell)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,
    I just want to ask if the default backup directory has changed in the new version. It now defaults to /wp-content/backups/ while in the previous version it was /administrator/backups/. Is that correct? If so then can I remove the /administrator/ directory?

    The reason I ask is that I used to exclude the /administrator/ directory because I didn’t want the backups included in the backup. I notice in the settings the RegEx line:
    (wp-content\/updraft|wp-content\/uploads\/wp_all_backup)(.*)$
    That seems to be excluding the “/wp-content/backups/” directory because it’s not in the backups. Correct?

    I could probably use the RegEx settings to exclude anything I don’t want. That is only the cgi-bin directory and the .well-known directory.

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  • XCloner

    (@xcloner)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Yes, the required administrator/backups directory has been removed, and the default backup directory is now wp-content/backups/ , you can safely remove that. The wp-content/backups is excluded by default, those regex line exclude the

    wp-content/updraft
    wp-content/uploads/wp_all_backup

    directories which are default backup directories of other plugins.

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