Exclude / include regex lists support

[deajan]

I use to maintain a list of backup paths to exclude and file extesion lists that are already compressed in order not to recompress them. The lists can be found at https://github.com/deajan/linuxscripts/tree/master/burp/incexc and are mostly targeted towards desktop users.

Is there any chance I can use these kind of regexes in order to configure bupstash ? Also, my lists are generally quite big (biggest one has 220 regexes). Does bupstash support exluding from (multiple) files ?

Thanks.

[deajan]

Ahem... any answers or even a RTFM link please ?

[andrewchambers]

Hi there, I am wondering i you meant this specific format? or if you meant just reading from files in general? It is definitely something I could consider.

[deajan]

I don't really care about the format, as long as I can use REGEX exclusions from one or multiple files, since I have really big exclusion lists for clients. Top tier would be allowing to provide multiple --exclude-from-file= syntax in order to load multiple exclusion files depending on client platform.

[freefd]

Hi folks, could we convert this issue into "Reading exclusion list from file"?

I also upvote the --exclude-from-file= feature, it's highly required for flexible integration with semi-automated and automatic tasks to backup something by a scheduler.

For example, currently exceptions must be hard-coded into a Systemd service file rather than a simple text/plain file somewhere in the host's FS.

[andrewchambers]

I also have been thinking a bit about supporting dynamic exclusion lists, so its not just single files.

[ptman]

rsync exclude patterns like rsync --exclude-from=FILE ?