Change magento backup folder from /var/backup to different/external folder

[saiyadsalma]

I need to change my backup directory to some other directory which is different from Magento installation root directory. How can i do this?

[Sinisa]

You can make symbolic link. Let's say that your paths are:

 - Magento root: /var/www/html

 - Desired place for backup /mnt/backup

All you have to do in this case is to:

mv /var/www/html/var/backup /var/www/html/var/backup-temp
ln -s /mnt/backup /var/www/html/var/backup
cp -r /var/www/html/var/backup-temp/* /var/www/html/var/backup/
rm -rf /var/www/html/var/backup-temp

What I'm doing here:

 - moving the content of your current backup directory into backup-temp

 - making a symbolic link between /mnt/backup and Magento's backup location

 - copying existing files into a new backup directory and deleting the old one