BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature suggestion: more granular/flexible includes & excludes

2009-11-04 15:05:01
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature suggestion: more granular/flexible includes & excludes
From: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:01:06 -0500
Tyler J. Wagner wrote at about 14:48:49 +0000 on Wednesday, November 4, 2009:
 > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 13:36:10 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > > Not true! Perhaps you didn't read (or at least quote) the rest of my
 > > post which explained how it would all be done on the *server*, where
 > > *after* files were transferred using the normal (untouched) transport
 > > method, a single (potentially) compound Perl conditional statement
 > > would be applied against any file matching the modified
 > > include/exclude statement to determine whether or not to indeed add it
 > > to the new file list. No conditional would be applied if you just
 > > wanted to use the standard include/exclude logic.
 > 
 > OK, sounds possible.  What is the use case?

OK this is getting comical ;)
... I mentioned the use case also in the original posting. 

To quote again...

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 23:59:21 -0500 on Tuesday, November 3, 2009:
 > For example, I might only want to backup /tmp files less than 24 hours
 > old. Or maybe I only want to back up documents owned by user X. Or
 > maybe only want to backup executables. Or maybe I only want to back up
 > log files smaller than Y megabytes. Or maybe some combination of the
 > above conditions with and/or logic. Etc.
 > 

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