Filenames too long to backup…

  • Resolved elper

    (@elper)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, first to thank you for this excellent plugin ??

    I’m getting a stack of warnings like this:

    WARNING: File name “wp-content/uploads/xxxx/dynamic/yyyy-nggid042571-ngg0dyn-200x200x90-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t03jpg.jpg” is too long to be saved correctly in TarBz2 archive!

    I found a similar thread about long filenames here but the solution isn’t practical for me as the rogue files are distributed in 100+ different folders ??

    Is it possible to either build in a simple “skip_long_file_names” option or better still to exclude a pattern of folders or files like */dynamic/* ?
    Alternatively somehow shorten long filenames to fit TarBz2 limits?

    Brgds.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/backwpup/

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

  • The WARNING says only the the filname will saved shortend. But i must give a hint for that.
    In the big excludes box (in bottom of the files tab) you can add ,/wp-content/uploads/xxxx/dynamic/ that will only exclude this folder or ,/dynamic/ will exclude all “dynamic” folders. Or since BackWPup 3.1.2 you can ad a file called .donotbackup to that folder than it will not backuped to (includeinf subfolders).

    Also you can change to a ZIP Archive. They can store longer file names.

    Thread Starter elper

    (@elper)

    Thank you for the comprehensive answer, I’ll use the ,/dynamic/ option ??

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • The topic ‘Filenames too long to backup…’ is closed to new replies.

Tags