From 5aafebb7a6e893da95cb3239e806240c3b5347fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Choromanski <BrianChoromanski@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2026 16:36:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Added mealie.log rotations to excluded files for backup
 (#7138)

---
 mealie/services/backups_v2/backup_v2.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mealie/services/backups_v2/backup_v2.py b/mealie/services/backups_v2/backup_v2.py
index 3caa19401..dc2bb6959 100644
--- a/mealie/services/backups_v2/backup_v2.py
+++ b/mealie/services/backups_v2/backup_v2.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import datetime
 import json
+import re
 import shutil
 from pathlib import Path
 from zipfile import ZipFile
@@ -15,7 +16,8 @@ class BackupSchemaMismatch(Exception): ...
 
 class BackupV2(BaseService):
     EXCLUDE_DIRS = {"backups", ".temp"}
-    EXCLUDE_FILES = {"mealie.db", "mealie.log"}
+    EXCLUDE_FILES = {"mealie.db"}
+    EXCLUDE_FILES_REGEX = {re.compile(r"^mealie\.log(?:\.\d+)?$")}
     EXCLUDE_EXTENTIONS = {".zip"}
 
     RESTORE_FILES = {".secret"}
@@ -54,6 +56,9 @@ class BackupV2(BaseService):
                 if data_file.name in self.EXCLUDE_FILES:
                     continue
 
+                if any(pattern.search(data_file.name) for pattern in self.EXCLUDE_FILES_REGEX):
+                    continue
+
                 if data_file.is_file() and data_file.suffix not in self.EXCLUDE_EXTENTIONS:
                     if data_file.parent.name in self.EXCLUDE_DIRS:
                         continue