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BACKUP - Azure which files/folders to exclude

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DNNhost

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9/27/2019 10:47 AM

My first website hosted on Azure and I am learning some new things.

https://mitchelsellers.com/blogs/2019/09/13/diagnosing-fixing-azure-backup-failures
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/manage-backup

Referring to the above mentioned articles, I wonder what would be the best configuration for reducing errors and backup size

I am testing this one for the auto- dynamicly generated files - folders

\site\wwwroot\App_Data\Search\write.lock
\site\wwwroot\App_Data\Search Dynamicly creaed
\site\wwwroot\portals\_default\logs more about this one later........
\site\wwwroot\portals\0\DigArticle\Cache Dynamicly creaed
\site\wwwroot\portals\0-System\Cache  Dynamicly creaed
\site\wwwroot\portals\1-System\Cache  Dynamicly creaed
\site\wwwroot\portals\2-System\Cache  Dynamicly creaed

Michel Sellers advices to exclude the
\site\wwwroot\portals\_default\logs

I am not sure about this one because there are other files which I have experianced were needed
like several InstallerLog20190926.config files
LogFailures.xml
\LogConfig folder

Actually I would only like to exclude the date.log.resources files created dayly.

Do you know if it is possible in Azure backup to use something like
\site\wwwroot\portals\_default\logs\*.log.resources
and hereby actually backing up folders, xml and InsallerLogDate.resources files
I seem to be unable to find more detailed documentation for configuration af _backup.filter

Have you tested and could you recommend/ suggest other filetypes - folders
that could be included in the _backup.filter

Looking forward to any advice

Olly Hodgson

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Posts: 52

9/27/2019 12:56 PM

If you use the OpenContent module, it also has a write.lock file (associated with it's Lucene search functionality) which needs to be excluded from the backup. I can't remember the exact path - I think it depends a bit on the install.

Generally you can look at the Azure backup logs, see what failed (and why IIRC) and if necessary add it to the _backup.filter file.

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