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teejee2008 / aptik

Command-line tool for migrating system settings and data for distributions based on Debian, Arch and Fedora. Can backup and restore software repositories, packages, icons, themes, fonts, users, groups, home data, dconf settings, fstab/crypttab entries, and cron tasks.
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Want to exclude a folder when backing up home #35

Closed 2635599 closed 5 years ago

2635599 commented 5 years ago

i would like to know if these is anyway to exclude a folder from being backed up when i backup home? i have plex media server installed and with it home takes forever to backup, not to mention it makes the backup massive. i would like to exclude it during the back up. thanks

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2635599 commented 5 years ago

no comment one way or the other yet?

rasmith1959 commented 5 years ago

At the moment there's no way this can be done using the graphic user interface, but can easily be done from the command line. You can do this by using the option --exclude-from [text file of Directories and/or files to exclude]. Here's an example of how I use it:

sudo aptik --backup-all --basepath /media/roy/'Linux Backups'/Aptik --scripted --exclude-from .skipped_files

Aptik will read the text file and skip those files in your home folder when the --exclude-from [text file] is used. In my example above it reads the .skipped_files file which contains:

Music Pictures Dropbox .Dropbox

Now when I use aptik and use the option --exclude-from .skipped_files it will skip over those folders in my Home directory and the archive it creates is much smaller that if I hadn't used it.

teejee2008 commented 5 years ago

The free version of Aptik is no longer maintained

A paid version is available with more features.

https://teejeetech.in/2019/07/14/aptik-v19-07/