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#19453 Regular Expression to Exclude error_log

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Latest post by tampe125 on Monday, 10 March 2014 02:51 CDT

Monday, 10 March 2014 01:24 CDT

user72533
Hey guys,

backups are working great. just a quick question that i couldn't seem to figure out searching your docs and google.

I understand the principle of using a regex to exclude files and folders. unfortunately i do not know how to construct even basic ones yet :) thanks for the examples.

i just wanted to ask if you could provide a simple regex to exclude all the error_log files that might exist on a server and all subdirectories such as hostgator. these obviously bloat the site if not excluded.

It seems like I'm excluding them, but wanted to ask if the expression i'm using is correct. it is

#error_log#i

Thanks,
danny
Edited by user72533 on 2014-03-10 01:27 CDT

Monday, 10 March 2014 02:51 CDT

tampe125
Hello Danny,

yes, it should be ok.
However you can create a quick test to check if it's working: create a new test folder and put inside it two files error_log and whatever.
Then create a new backup profile, excluding every folder but the one you just created.
Then create a new exclude regex espression and apply the pattern you wrote above.

Then run a new backup: inside it you should find only the file named whatever.

Davide Tampellini

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