[Box Backup] Include/Exclude features
Joe Krahn
boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:21:18 -0500
It may be useful to have more options for include/exclude, for example
file size limits.
A more complex example is to not backup files that are known unchanged
from a distribution package. For an RPM based system, one could backup a
list of installed RPMS, run rpm --verify, and exclude all unchanged
package files.
This could easily be handled by allowing the exclude directive to
specify a filename containing a list of filenames.
An alternative to providing more complex selections would be to have an
external executable/script do the directory recursion, and supply the
entire list of files/dirs (i.e. plain old find would provide a lot of
options). But, it's not as simple as I had thought, because
SyncDirectory is interleaved with UpdateItems.
So, for now, I would suggest:
[Exclude|AlwaysInclude][File|Dir][|sRegex][|From]
where the From suffix means read filenames from the specified file(s).
I suspect that a really big file list will result in a lot of overhead,
but performance is not as important as reliability for now.
A few more things:
I would change the ExcludeFile class to FileSelection class, or similar,
since it is also used for Include lists.
I assume that STRUCTURE_PATCKING_FOR_WIRE_USE_HEADERS is a typo and is
supposed to be STRUCTURE_PATCHING_FOR_WIRE_USE_HEADERS. (It's uniform,
so I assume a global search-replace...)
Joe