How to skip a directory during creating a backup

@smshahriar

It is not possible to files other than media/plugins/themes.

Ah, the plugin is so great. It seems an obvious option even if it’s paid.

Actually, it is possible to exclude a folder on your export, you just need to use the ‘ai1wm_exclude_content_from_export’ filter.

Just add the following code in your theme’s functions.php:

add_filter( 'ai1wm_exclude_content_from_export', function( $exclude ) {
	$exclude[] = 'cache';
	return $exclude;
} );

Just change ‘cache’ to the ‘folder name’ you want to exclude.

I’ve been using this filter for ages because the plugin indiscriminately includes all folders in the wp-content folder without an easy way to exclude them via the Advanced Options.

@systemfailer thank you very much. So if I have multiple folders to exclude, can I simply use the below code?

add_filter( 'ai1wm_exclude_content_from_export', function( $exclude ) {
	$exclude[] = 'cache1';
        $exclude[] = 'cache2';
	return $exclude;
} );

Can someone able to create a plugin on this filter through which we can easily exclude the folders by installing that plugin?

@smshahriar Yes, that is correct.

@zeeshanx Should be possible. Wish I have enough time to write it though ?? Somebody else should be able to do so.

@systemfailer thanks again. So the code will exclude the folders which are inside /wp-content directory. But what’s about when you want to exclude folder in the root directory which are not inside in /wp-content ?

@smshahriar The plugin does not backup folders above wp-content/ but inside wp-content/ it should be relative to that folder, so you can use $exclude[] = 'plugins/akismet/storage';
or
$exclude[] = 'themes/avada/includes';

I haven’t tried it yet though but it should work.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by SystemFailer.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by SystemFailer.

@systemfailer The problem is that I have some folders where I have some archive files which are outside of the /wp-content directory in some folders. I need a way to exclude those folders. Is it possible?

@smshahriar As far as I know, the plugin only exports files inside wp-content/

But if it is for you, you can try

$exclude[] = '../wp-admin/includes';
$exclude[] = '../outsidefolder';

@systemfailer Great, thank you. I will give it a try.

Anyway yes I know the plugin only exports files inside wp-content. But I was talking about the files and folders which are uploaded through FTP manually or the folders from the other plugins which stays outside of the wp-content directory.

I’ve created a plugin for this: https://github.com/anonymousguyx/ai1wpm-excluder

It’s an open source plugin and any one can contribute for improving it’s functionality ??