File-Exclusions on Linux File-Level-Backup

[FelixTECH_MSP]

Hi everytone,

I am doing a File level backup of Linux (Ubuntu Server 20.04+) hosts. I'm only backing up application-specific folders. On some applications there are huge logfiles in those folders (not in a separate sub-folder) which I'd like to exclude from the backup.

E.g. the object to backup is "/var/lib/docker/volumes/volume1/" and the exclusion list contains the entries "/var/lib/docker/volumes/volume1/_data/list\.*", "" and "/var/lib/docker/volumes/volume1/_data/log.db".
The excluded files are still contained in the backup.
Is it currently even possible to exclude files on Linux? As far as I read in the documentation for VMware Guest Files it only wotks on Windows. Is this true for the Agent as well?

Best regards,
Felix

Case# 05973898

[Mildur]

Hi Felix

File Exclusion in VM backups is only for NTFS partitions on windows VMs.

For Linux Agent, you cannot use File Filter to exclude entire paths.
Only Files can be excluded by it: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ng-filters

Best,
Fabian

[FelixTECH_MSP]

Thank you! It works now as expected.

Anyways, I would like to see a path exclusion feature in a future release on Linux as well.

[PTide]

Hi,

That's on our TODO list.

Thanks!