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Create New Filters

A account filter helps us to backup accounts by predefined conditions.
In order to create a new filter, click on Backup Jobs/Clone Jobs at the JetBackup sidebar and choose Manage Account Filters.
Or create it when you Create New Backup Job/Clone.

Manage Account Filters


Click on Create New Filter

Create New Filters


Example configuration page for a new filter:

Create New Filters Page


Filter Type

  • Accounts Filter - Specify which accounts to Include/Exclude in the backup/clone job.
  • Resellers Filter * - Specify which reseller accounts (includes the reseller's sub accounts) to Include/Exclude in the backup/clone job.
  • Suspension Filter ** - Specify whether to Include/Exclude suspended accounts in the backup/clone job.
  • Disk Space Usage Filter - Filter accounts to Include Below/Above (or equals) a specified disk space usage in the backup/clone job.
  • Inode Usage Filter - Filter accounts to Include Below/Above (or equals) a specified Inodes (files number) usage in backup/clone job.
  • Packages Filter - Specify which accounts to Include/Exclude by cPanel Packages in the backup/clone job.
  • Characters Range Filter - Specify which accounts to Include/Exclude by characters range in the backup/clone job.
  • Regular Expression Filter - Specify which accounts to Include/Exclude by a regular expression pattern in the backup/clone job

* Reseller Filters only affect the accounts that a reseller account owns, not the reseller account itself. Reseller accounts will be included in the affects of a Reseller Filter if the reseller account owns itself.
** When excluding suspended accounts using the Suspension Filter, please note that backups associated with the backup job for the corresponding accounts will remain on rotation, effectively removing the suspended account's backups each time the backup job runs unless the account is terminated at which point the backups become orphan backups and the Delete orphan backups older than setting applies.

Please visit the following troubleshooting guide for instructions on how to lock backups from your suspended accounts and remove them from your backup job rotation.

Filter Name

This will be used internally your convenience.

Filter Condition

Whatever to included or excluded accounts filtered by this filter.

Filter Logic

By default, all accounts are included in the backup job. Filters allows you to specify which accounts are to be included/excluded. Multiple filters may also be applied and are combined by AND/OR statements.
AND - the condition on EACH filter(s) must be met in order for an account to be included in the backup job.
OR - the condition on EITHER filter(s) must be met in order for an account to be included in the backup job.

Examples:

All Accounts: {acct01,acct02,acct03}
Filter A: Account Filter, Include: {acct01, acct02}
Filter B: Account Filter, Include: {acct01}
Filter C: Account Filter, Exclude: {acct02}

Creating a filter with the following filter type combinations will provide these results:
Filter A AND Filter B => Only {acct01} will be backed up.
Filter B OR Filter C => Only {acct01, acct03} will be backed up.
Filter A OR Filter B => Only {acct01, acct02} will be backed up.
Filter A AND Filter B AND Filter C => Only {acct01} will be backed up.
Filter A OR Filter B AND Filter C => Only {acct01, acct02} will be backed up.