How to exclude some file types from backup?

[Murat]

Hello,
I want to exclude some file types or directories from my backups for all user accounts?
I have my weekly backup cron. It backups everything.
To make things faster and minimize, i want to exclude tar.gz, .zip, .rar and cache files from backups.

Is there a way to do this?
I read this: https://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=1737
But it's not clear about how to specify file format to exclude globally.

Thanks.

 

[scriptkitty]

Are you wanting to do this for all users at once? Is that what is meant by globally? If so, have you tried something like this?

for u in `ls  /usr/local/directadmin/data/users | grep -v httpd.conf`; do echo '*tar.gz' >> /home/$u/.backup_exclude_paths ; echo '*.zip'  >> /home/$u/.backup_exclude_paths; echo '*.rar' >> /home/$u/.backup_exclude_paths ; done

Note that I didn't include cache files as I don't what format they are in.

If you meant something else other by 'globally', please clarify.

 

[Murat]

Are you wanting to do this for all users at once? Is that what is meant by globally? If so, have you tried something like this?

for u in `ls  /usr/local/directadmin/data/users | grep -v httpd.conf`; do echo '*tar.gz' >> /home/$u/.backup_exclude_paths ; echo '*.zip'  >> /home/$u/.backup_exclude_paths; echo '*.rar' >> /home/$u/.backup_exclude_paths ; done

Note that I didn't include cache files as I don't what format they are in.

If you meant something else other by 'globally', please clarify.

Yes, I meant I want to exclude .rar or zip files from all backups that users created or auto-created through weekly cron.
Thank you for your help, I will try.

 

[donko]

is there any way to exclude file types permanently?

i want to skip for all users/domains backups these files:

.wpress
.zip
.tar.gz
.cache