Excluding Dynamic File from within Top Level Added Folder

[Living Miracles]

Hello,

We wanted to check in and see if there was a way to do something very specific with the “Add Folders and Files” and “Exclude Folders and Files” options in the “Add|Exclude Other Folders & Files” tab in the “AutoRestore|Quarantine Options” area in BPS Pro. Essentially, we have a Top Level folder that we’ve added and is checked by the ARQ Cron Job. Within this top level folder, further in the structure, is a dynamic log file that we would like to exclude from being checked by the ARQ Cron Job, because this dynamic log file keeps getting quarantined but is always a false positive. Therefore, this adds unnecessary work for us. A number of things we’ve tried have some drawbacks:

1. After adding the top level folder, if we simply remove the dynamic log file using the “Remove” functionality within the Added Folders and Files section, then this dynamic log file is immediately quarantined and will continue to be quarantined when any changes are made to the file. This was the most intuitive way that we thought we might be able to exclude a file from within an added top level folder, but any change to the file still results in a quarantine. So I wanted to ask if this is expected behavior, and if you intend for these features to work this way, where you cannot exclude an individual file from an added top level folder?
2. Another idea we had to achieve our goal, is to essentially add the original top level folder in chunks by using the “Add a Top Level Folder” option to all folders within the original top level folder that are not part of the file path to the file we want to exclude. We can then exclude as much material as possible from nested folders that are a part of the excluded file file path using the “Add a Top Level Folder” option, and “Add an Individual File” option. This option takes more time to implement, and has the drawback that if any malicious file is added to the original Top Level folder, or any malicious file is added to any part of the file path of the file we want to exclude, this would not be caught and protected by ARQ.

Therefore, we were wondering how you would recommend we exclude a dynamic file from being checked by ARQ from within an added Top Level Folder. Is there something we were missing when we tried option #1 that would allow us to achieve our goal in this way, or is option #2 the best way to achieve our goal? If so, we’d like to make a feature request so that we can exclude dynamic files or folders inside a top level folder, so that we can do this without the drawbacks we mentioned for option #2.

Thanks for your help!

[AITpro Admin]

The simplest solution is to put the log file in a different folder that does have file exclude capability (wp-content folder somewhere).  The Add Folders and Files feature is an independent feature that is not hooked into the exclude folders/files feature so it does not have exclude folders/files capability.  No plans on adding that capability.

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