As your web site grows
and becomes more complex
we might want to take advantage of some of the
advanced features available in Akeeba Backup
to exclude some data from the backup itself.
To begin with lets look at the Database Tables exclusion
Here we can see listed
all the tables that exist in the database.
Now, not all of these might be related
to our WordPress web site.
For example I have the database tables
for a phpBB site.
Akeeba Backup is very clever
if I click on this Exclude Non-Core table
it will go through the entire list of database tables
and flag all the ones that are not
part of the WordPres installation
to be excluded from this backup.
As you can see
all of the phpBB tables
have now been flagged
to be excluded from the backup.
I can also mark some tables
in a slightly different way by clicking here
if I want to include the table
but not include
the contents of that table.
For example I do need the comments table
but I don't need to backup the comments themselves.
If you want to see a list of all the tables
that are going to be excluded you can click here
We can see the tables that are going to be excluded from the backup
and those tables that
will be included but without their contents.
If you want to change one of the settings
click on the delete button to remove it from the exclusion.
Now that we've excluded the database tables
that are not related to this WordPress web site
let's have a look at some of the files.
If we go back to our dashboard
we can see we have a Files & Directories
exclusion as well.
Over here we can see
I have particularly large file
which is an mp3
that I don't need to backup
I am going to click on this icon
to exclude that individual file.
Now in this site
inside my uploads folder
I have a large number of images
in multiple sizes.
They're pretty big
and I may not want to include those in my backup
as I've got a copy of them elsewhere.
If I click on this icon here
I can exclude all the uploads
I could just skip the subdirectories
by clicking here instead
and keep the main one.
But I am going to exclude the entire directory.
Again we can see a list of all the files
that we've set to be excluded by clicking.
on the summary view button.
You can see I've set it to exclude
the uploads folder
and the large mp3.
I can now return to the Control Panel
and perform a new backup
Any backup will now
exclude those database tables
that are not related to this WordPress web site.
AND those large
uploads directories and files
which I didn't want to include.