Re: doc patch for $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}

Les Mikesell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.backuppc.devel
Message-ID <CAOAgVpyvpCTTkKaJDx-83Dwowz9xCuVYFQ-_2f15u8GEB3FbYA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Steve M. Robbins <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> rsync(1), you'll agree that the matter of specifying exclude and include
>> patterns is rather complex. This is clearly beyond the scope of config.pl (or
>> BackupPC.pod).
>
> Perhaps.  As a user, however, I'd vastly prefer a configuration
> language that would abstract away all the varying details so that

But such an abstraction could only use the lowest common denominator
of capabilities...

>  1. I do not have to read the manpage for tar or rsync or smb, and

And administrators already familiar with their tools would have to
learn yet another way to express what they want...

>  2. the set of files included/excluded does not change if I change transfer method.

Not possible, since smbtar doesn't have a way to pass both includes
and excludes.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    [email protected]

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