Container snapshot excluding guest backups

Incus
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Hello, I’m using Incus 7.0.1 from Debian 13 (backports)
My containers use DIR storage driver on Ext4 filesystem.

Guests are making own backups into their own /var/backups/ path, and I don’t want to include them either when exporting the instance or when taking an instance snapshot.

How do I do this?

Thank you.

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Easiest would be to create a separate custom volume for their backups and then attach that to the container at /var/backups. Anything they write to the path will then be stored in that custom volume rather than main instance storage.