System Backup - ability to change list of backup locations

Robert Bareš shared this idea ago

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cPanel's System Backup backups list of predefined locations. These locations are hard-coded in the cPanel code,

my @DIRS = (
$Cpanel::ConfigFiles::VALIASES_DIR,
$Cpanel::ConfigFiles::VDOMAINALIASES_DIR,
$Cpanel::ConfigFiles::VFILTERS_DIR,
$Cpanel::ConfigFiles::FTP_PASSWD_DIR,
Cpanel::Mailman::Filesys::MAILMAN_DIR(),
qw(
/etc/cpanel
/etc/namedb
/var/lib/rpm
/var/lib/named/chroot/var/named/master
/var/named
/var/cpanel
/var/spool/cron
/var/cron/tabs
/var/spool/fcron
/var/log/bandwidth
/usr/share/ssl
/etc/ssl
/var/ssl
)
);

Please add a GUI to change this list of locations (add or remove items). For example I would like to disable the MailMan backup, because it is already included in Account backups and sometimes takes huge amounts of space.

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benny@cpanel.net ●

While there isn't a GUI option for this request, there is a command line option that is discussed in the system backup documentation here:

https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/System+Backups#SystemBackups-Files

To configure system backups to include custom files or directories, create a new file or directory in the /var/cpanel/backups/extras directory (for example, /var/cpanel/backups/extras/etc). In that file, enter an absolute path to any files that you wish to back up (for example, /etc/example.conf).

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Robert Bareš ●

Thank you for the suggestion, it will be useful in cases when a resource needs to be added to the System Backup list. However my problem was (is) opposite - I need to remove one of the predefined locations from System Backups, which is not possible via the mentioned configuration file.

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