This should be applied to scheduled backups, not only manual ones. It would also be useful to exclude certain files or folders from the backup for specific domains.

For example - Exclude specific files from the backup:

domain.com/httpdocs/directory/*

Please! This feature would make a huge difference!

Hi Plesk Team,

This should be added as on priority basis.

I have few more suggestions for more customisations:
1. Provide the GUI to exclude all possible cases such as Mailbox, Databases, Websites, Domains, Subscriptions.

2. Another option that can be to simply do you want to exclude the suspended subscriptions, like its provided in the cPanel Backup options list. But suppress any error generated from this suspended subscription.

3. For such subscriptions that are suspended or disabled or do not have any mailboxes created, suppress the warning "The email messages are not backed up because the mail service is not active." from the Backup Result (migration.result) file, but keep it in the Backup Log (migration.log) file.

per favore aggiungetelo

please add it

need it

can u ?

This is still alive? Seems to be forgotten.

I vote for the ability to crawl specific domains from backup.

This would be wonderful, even if you can exclude mail from a certain domain for example.

Please implement this feature soon.

2022 and this option still not implemented? no way! how we can schedule automatic backup but excluding some domains? theres no option ? really?

thank you

add the ability to exclude the suspended /disable domains

It is bizarre to me that this is supported via command line but not via the pane! How hard could it be to implement this? 3 YEARS later still waiting....

Hi there, we would really appreciate the implementation of this feature.

This is a really important feature that should be implemented as a priority. The number of users implementing WP backup plugins, which store backups in their directory tree is increasing. This makes backups of backups when you do full server backups. We definitely should be able to exclude by customer and/or subscription and/or domain.

I would like to have the option to select what to backup, rather than what to exclude.
I have 20 wordpress sites of 10GB total space and one news website that is about 110GB alone..
I would like to have the option to exclude lets say 2011-2020 folders inside uploads folder that is about 105GB, files that are not changing and backed up in my pc!!
Thanks!!

This is important, as some domain's size is big and some domains are doing their own backups and so on, so we can free space on backup size and resources to create backups.

I have a 4TB drive with my Plesk install and trying to back up that if full would be next to impossible. As individual domains can already be backed up it makes no sense for a server backup not to have the facility to exclude individual domains otherwise you're basically saying, 'Plesk - for small drives only!'.

upvoting this, need this please.