Excluding Folders From a Cron Backup

A while ago, I posted an article on using cron to make backups of folders on Linux web hosting. One issue I’ve become aware of since then is that there are some folders I want to exclude from the backup process. I did some exploring and found the --exclude switch can be used to exclude a single folder; to exclude multiple folders, you can use the switch multiple times.

The example below,…

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Excluding Folders From a Cron Backup

A while ago, I posted an article on using cron to make backups of folders on Linux web hosting. One issue I’ve become aware of since then is that there are some folders I want to exclude from the bac‎…

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