As your web site grows
and becomes more complex
we might want to take advantage of some of the
advanced features available in Akeeba Solo.
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 Drupal web site.
For example I have the database tables
for a phpBB site.
Akeeba 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 Drupal installation
to be excluded from the backup.
As you can see
all of the phpBB tables
have now been flagged
to be excluded from the backup.
I can also see several tables
that have also been marked in a
slightly different way.
These are some of the core tables
of our website that are related to cache.
In this case we do want
to restore the database table
but we dont want to transfer the contents.
So the field has been flagged here
to do not backup its contents.
If you want to see a list of all the tables
that are going to be excluded you can click here
Summary View.
Now that we've excluded the database tables
that are not related to this web site
let's have a look at some of the files.
If we go back to our control panel
we can see we have a Files & Directories
exclusion as well.
We can see that the akeeba solo folder
has been marked as not to be backed up.
as we only want to backup our Drupal web site.
Now in this site
inside my files folder
I have several large folders
downloads and videos
They're pretty large
and I don't 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 the enitre video directory.
I could do the same for my downloads
or i could just skip the subdirectories
and keep the main one.
Over here we can see I have
one particularly large file
which is a pdf.
which I also don't need to backup.
I am going to click on that icon
to exclude that individual file.
Again we can see a list of all the files
that we've set to be excluded.
You can see I've set it to exclude
those two big directories
and that pdf.
I can now return to the Control Panel
and perform a new backup
And that will exclude those database tables
that are not related to this Drupal web site.
AND those large
downloads and video directories
which I decided I didn't want to include.