Add “Ignored Files & Directories” to Server Backups

Please add an “Ignored Files & Directories” setting for manual and scheduled server backups.

The standard Pterodactyl backup interface allows users to specify files and directories that should not be included in a backup. This option is currently missing from the UltraServers panel.

Problem

Minecraft servers can contain large amounts of temporary or reproducible data that do not need to be backed up, such as:

• Resource or pregenerated worlds

• Plugin cache directories

• Temporary files

• Logs

• Plugin-generated data that can be recreated

• Large files that are not required for server restoration

Without exclusion rules, every backup includes this unnecessary data. This increases backup size, takes longer to upload and restore, and consumes more storage on the host.

Suggested Implementation

Add an “Ignored Files & Directories” field to the backup creation and scheduling interface.

The field could accept one file or directory pattern per line, using the same exclusion format supported by Pterodactyl.

Example:

cache/
logs/
plugins/Chunky/temp/
resource_world/
*.tmp

Benefits

This feature would:

• Reduce backup storage usage

• Make backups faster

• Make restores faster

• Avoid repeatedly storing temporary or reproducible data

• Give users greater control over what their backups contain