Re: doc patch for $Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
Les Mikesell <[email protected]>
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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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ BackupPC-devel mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/