How to exclude specific file types in Déjà Dup backup

Asked Dec 16 '16 at 02:21

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I want to take regular backups of my web development project files but would like to ignore not so important files like images, vendor files, etc. There is a way to exclude folders but how to exclude by file type?

asked Dec 16 '16 at 02:21

Gaurav

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It seems like you can't exclude them based on the extension. – wjandrea Dec 16 '16 at 02:32
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You might consider using rsync instead. – wjandrea Dec 16 '16 at 02:34
You can save or ignore only at the folder level. – heynnema Dec 17 '16 at 01:37
@wjandrea: i don't think so, since rsync is just for syncing files and not for a backup! - there is a difference between these two tasks. -- and by the way: deja-dup is rather a GUI-application and rsync has a CLI only; although there is with grsync a rudimentary GUI. – DJCrashdummy Jun 18 '17 at 18:46
but rsnapshot is for making backups: it is based on rsync, folders, files and file types can be ex-/included but it has still a CLI only. but there are some GUIs based on it like backintime... – DJCrashdummy Jun 18 '17 at 18:48

How to exclude specific file types in Déjà Dup backup

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