From: Jon F. <jlf...@be...> - 2007-12-20 14:46:20
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Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Sounds nice, but doesn't seem to cover all use cases. For instance, I > exclude directories that may not exist at all on some of my clients. How > would your GUI method facilitate that? This would clearly be a per-client feature. If the directories to exclude don't exist then you won't see them in the GUI. > And I also don't see how you > would be able to use * or even ** wildcards this way. The current system > offers a lot more flexibility. There could still be a way to specify wildcards for files to ignore. This would be no big deal. One reason why I think my idea has promise is because this is how all the commercial backup products I've ever used work. Adding this feature to BackupPC would just bring it closer to the commercial backup products. Jon Forrest |