How to do exclusions without wildcards?

  • I’m trying to exclude a particular directory from backup, by use of the HMBKP_EXCLUDE key in wp-config. The problem I’m running into is that when I specify something, e.g.

    define( ‘HMBKP_EXCLUDE’, ‘/dir/’ );

    BackupWordPress excludes all directories that have dir somewhere in the title. It’s as if it’s really doing *dir*. How can I specify an exclusion that means just the directory titled ‘dir’?

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  • Assuming this is on linux, try defining as
    ‘./dir/’

    also try defining it as ‘dir’

    you can also try ‘./dir/.’

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by aetool.
    Thread Starter vultan

    (@vultan)

    Thanks. I tried it, but it didn’t work. It doesn’t exclude the directory at all.

    I had another idea which seems in the right direction, but also isn’t working: I put in my exclude as a regular expression with start and end characters:

    define( ‘HMBKP_EXCLUDE’, ‘^dir$’ );

    This had the positive effect of showing that directory as “excluded” in the WordPress interface, but even though BackupWordPress shows it as excluded, it isn’t. It still gets backed up.

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