[BackupPC-users] how to include certain files

[Klaas V. <Klaas.Vantournhout@UGent.be>]

Hi,  I'm posting a lot these days to the list.  It is just that I am 
finetuning my backup server, and want to do it in a nice way.

I was wondering about the following.

In my general conf.pl file I have stated that no hidden files should be 
backuped, hence I have

$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = { '*' => {'.*','*/.*']}

But in version 3.0.0beta3, the user is able to change those variables to 
his likeing, unless the admin changes this.

So I turn this off and all is safe.

But assume now that user A wants to add the directory .thunderbird to 
his backup.  He should be able to include this in some way.
Any idea how this could be done.

I thought that next to
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude}
there also excists an
$Conf{BackupFilesInclude}
which does the oposite, and that would make it possible if I let users 
edit this variable.  Unfortunately this does not excist.

something else I noticed that after switching from version 2.1.0 to 
3.0.0, is that the exludefiles are not appended anymore to the rsync 
command.

in /var/log/messages/ I only get the rudimentary command without the 
include and exclude's while this was the case in the previous version.

Thanks in advance for helping
Klaas
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