Title: Not automatically excluding backup folder on update
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Not automatically excluding backup folder on update

 *  [Harry2o](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harry2o/)
 * (@harry2o)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-automaticall-excluding-backup-folder/)
 * Hi,
 * I just noticed that my backup archives are HUGE. Checked the database, nothing
   there (very tiny).
    It seems that with the latest version (2.1.3) they/you changed
   the backups folder (honestly, I cannot remember, whether I defined the old one
   myself or whether it was done by the plugin) and the old backups folder was not
   added to the exclude rules. This happened on Nov 22nd (probably when I last updated
   the plugin).
 * So yeah, everything is ok – but I suggest if you (automatically) change the output
   folder of the backup files, you should either move the existing backups there
   too (which is better), or add that directory to exclusion rules.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-automaticall-excluding-backup-folder/#post-3259844)
 * Hey Harry2o
 * Your backups should have been moved, did you have a custom backups directory 
   previously (using HMBKP_PATH)?
 * We’re your backups copied over to the new directory instead of being moved (so
   they ended up duplicated)?
 *  Thread Starter [Harry2o](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harry2o/)
 * (@harry2o)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-automaticall-excluding-backup-folder/#post-3259850)
 * Tom,
 * Honestly since this happened over a month ago, I cannot really remember what 
   happened (then or before).
 * I can tell you these facts:
 * – I think when I installed the Plugin (cannot remember when, but it was a while
   ago) I set the schedule to “once a week”
    – I have a manual complete (offline)
   FTP backup from May 12, 2012 stored on my computer. This folder backup contains
   four WP-Backup ZIP-files in the subfolder wp-content/backups (2011-12-14, 2011-
   12-21, 2011-12-26, 2012-05-11)
 * – atm the plugin is set to store “once daily” and keep 10 backups
    – online on
   my server, wp-content/backups contains 12 backup ZIP-files (2012-11-13 through
   2012-11-22) – the plugin admin page (Tools, Backups) shows a list of 10 backups(
   2013-01-12 through 2013-01-21); I cannot find those files on the server (obviously
   they are not in wp-content/backups, see previous bullet point)
 * Before I change/delete anything, would you like me to check out anything else?

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 * Last reply from: [Harry2o](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harry2o/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-automaticall-excluding-backup-folder/#post-3259850)
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