Hi Folks,
I have a wordpress website hosted on Apache Httpd running on Rocky Linux 8. The tarball backup of website filesyste fails whenever website is up. However when I shut down the apache http server, backup script is successful. Do wordpress plugins lock some files on the fileystem? Is there any way for tarball to ignore such lock and take the backup?
how does the tar command fail, as in what’s the error message? i use restic these days but i used to tar and rclone back in the day, and never had an issue with the command/script failing.
Some plugins might lock files, but you can use the –exclude option in tar to skip them