Feature Request: Exclude Disabled Servers from Scheduled Backups

Hello Virtualmin Team,

If possible, I’d like to request a small enhancement to the “Create/Edit Scheduled Backup” screen. It would be extremely helpful to have a checkbox option labeled “Exclude disabled servers”, placed alongside the existing “Include sub-servers of those selected” option when creating backup schedules.

This would make managing backups more flexible, especially in environments with temporarily disabled or archived servers.

As always, thank you very much for your continued hard work and for supporting such an open-source remarkable hosting solution.

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I agree. This thing would be , no doubt, very helpful. this way the problem of space and time getting wasted would be resolved forever. And it can be achieved by justt adding a simple" Exclude Disabled server" checkbox to do so. A big thumbs up for this option :+1:

So the option is there, just use all All Except and move the disabled over to the right.
It should be a one off thing for scheduled backups.

and easy to forget to change in all those “scheduled backups” when a disabled VS goes live again.
whereas a tick box solves that.

ok, I know make copious notes

Very true :slight_smile:

it also just makes sense if someone (like me) just wants to quickly backup only the live sites.

I found this a bit confusing in the past, the select all box is already ticked, maybe it should be an empty box and a tick appears when chosen / clicked. For a while I thought all features were already included.

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Or at least grey all of the check boxes out when all is selected