There are no files to be backed up for public folder in storage

[danialwafiy]

I want to only backup a gallery folder stored in storage/app/public/gallery so I added

'include' => [
    base_path('storage/app/public/gallery'),
 ],

to the backup config and run 'php artisan backup:run' .. it gives the error
Backup failed because There are no files to be backed up..

So i tried a different approach and change it to

 'include' => [
     base_path('storage'),
  ],

The backup works but I get everything inside the storage folder except the public folder. It somehow excludes the public directory.