Backup solutions w/o capturing mounted NAS shares

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I’m running NCP, and am wondering the best way to go about generating backups w/o capturing data from the mounted NAS shares I have for each user. Is there a way to exclude directories from backups?

Also, are there any good tutorials for setting up rsync and/or snapshot? Not seeing a whole lot on the wiki.

Your help is much appreciated! Thanks!

/etc/fstab modifications:

#MyCloudEX2Ultra mount share “AAAAA”
192.168.7.100:/nfs/AAAAA /var/www/nextcloud/data/USER1/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra/AAAAA nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.7.100:/nfs/AAAAA /var/www/nextcloud/data/USER2/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra/AAAAA nfs defaults 0 0

#MyCloudEX2Ultra mount share “BBBBB”
192.168.7.100:/nfs/BBBBB /var/www/nextcloud/data/USER1/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra/BBBBB nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.7.100:/nfs/BBBBB /var/www/nextcloud/data/USER2/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra/BBBBB nfs defaults 0 0

#MyCloudEX2Ultra mount share “CCCCC”
192.168.7.100:/nfs/CCCCC /var/www/nextcloud/data/USER1/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra/CCCCC nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.7.100:/nfs/CCCCC /var/www/nextcloud/data/USER2/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra/CCCCC nfs defaults 0 0

#MyCloudEX2Ultra mount share “DDDDD”
192.168.7.100:/nfs/DDDDD /var/www/nextcloud/data/USER1/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra/DDDDD nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.7.100:/nfs/DDDDD /var/www/nextcloud/data/USER2/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra/DDDDD nfs defaults 0 0

#MyCloudEX2Ultra mount share “EEEEE”
192.168.7.100:/nfs/EEEEE /var/www/nextcloud/data/USER1/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra/EEEEE nfs defaults 0 0
192.168.7.100:/nfs/EEEEE /var/www/nextcloud/data/USER2/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra/EEEEE nfs defaults 0 0

Directories I would like to exclude from backups

/var/www/nextcloud/data/USER1/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra
/var/www/nextcloud/data/USER2/files/MyCloudEX2Ultra

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i asume you have shell access (?)
just pick whichever backup-prog you like and exclude or do not include the dirs/files you do not want in your backup.
with plain rsync that’s quite easy; you can also use the same functionality in rsync-based solutions like rsnapshot.
apart from that there are MANY backup-solutions you can choose from according to your needs; most of them have the functionality you describe.
GOOD LUCK!