* Ingo Preuss ingo.preuss@gmail.com [131206 07:11]:

Try the backup and migrate module.

Hth

Thanks for the tip. Backup and migrate on its own just backs up the database, but it has a plugin https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate_files to back up files. I will report back. :) It isn't drush but I hope it will work in a pinch. thanks again

Am 06.12.2013 03:05 schrieb "Tim Johnson" tim@akwebsoft.com:

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• Tim Johnson tim@akwebsoft.com [131205 16:08]:

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FYI: I am new to drupal, drush and PHP but am an experienced programmer in other areas. Am familiar and comfortable with the command line.

I use drush on both Linux and Mac.

I have a drupal site to archive, but there are many directories under the filesystem root which are not part of the site.

NOTE: This has happened because I use Hostmonster and add-on domains are "added on" under the site root.

I know that archive-dump has an exclude option and I could chain a couple of dozen 'excludes' but that's not nearly as 'elegant' as chaining seven 'includes' - which would be

includes, misc, modules, profiles, scripts, sites, themes

Forgot to say : I have used rsync and sql-sync to do something similar, it does (I think) take only the site directories, but the downside is that one would have to have a local site built already to 'syn' to ..... -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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* Tim Johnson tim@akwebsoft.com [131206 11:57]:

• Tim Johnson tim@akwebsoft.com [131206 10:20]:

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• Ingo Preuss ingo.preuss@gmail.com [131206 07:11]:

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Try the backup and migrate module.

Hth

Thanks for the tip. Backup and migrate on its own just backs up the database, but it has a plugin https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate_files to back up files. I will report back. :) It isn't drush but I hope it will work in a pinch.

I ran into problems with the backup_migrate_files module

regarding pear (FYI - am php noob). The solution using archive-dump is I believe the tar-options option which passes options to tar. tar-options="exclude=dir1 exclude=dir2 ..." works

more simply an input file would work better for multiple excludes, and that should be the tar '-T file_listing_files_to_exclude.txt' option.

So far I haven't been able to make that work, but will be the solution, I suspect.

I will post what works when I get to it.

Was a typo above. Should have typed '-X file_listing_files_to_exclude.txt' option. I.E. the tar option should be -X

But I can't get it to work. If I use the option above as a quote to --tar-option, drush will back up only the sites directory.

If (by running drush in verbose) I run one of the same tar commands that drush is issuing, I get the selective backup I'm looking for.

If anyone would like to pursue this or has any further ideas, I would welcome comments, suggestion etc... otherwise I may submit this problem as a trouble ticket.

IMHO - archive-dump should be able to do pick directories and files selectively.