I have relatively small websites that I have always backed up through CPanel (home directory, MySQL and forwarders). Of late, I have been having issues with the backup sizes getting up to around 100mb and more, when they still should be around 30mb or so. I have been told that this is because email is being backed up as well, which is taking up large amounts of space (I assume because the account uses IMAP).
I have found a way to exclude the emails from the backup, but evidently only if I do it through WHM or the "Full Website Backup" option in CPanel. Does this mean there is no way to backup a site through CPanel using the separate "home directory" option while excluding the email files?
http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/WHMDocs/CpbackupExclude
I have found a way to exclude the emails from the backup, but evidently only if I do it through WHM or the "Full Website Backup" option in CPanel. Does this mean there is no way to backup a site through CPanel using the separate "home directory" option while excluding the email files?
http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/WHMDocs/CpbackupExclude