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Tarsnap / tarsnap-gui

Cross-platform GUI for the Tarsnap backup service.
https://www.tarsnap.com
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Better exclusion patterns documentation & support #559

Open ilyagr opened 1 year ago

ilyagr commented 1 year ago

From the following code, it seems like the exclusion patterns should be separated by :, but I couldn't find that documented anywhere.

https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap-gui/commit/3489c5d11d26b2bf97c4f298d578e9eda024e7b1#diff-83ff65c94c9bc8a6390318b50bfc8b419cc96f625d744d45d053353ccfe0c28cR86-R90

I also wish I could select paths to exclude in a GUI, similarly to selecting directories to back up.

gperciva commented 1 year ago

Thanks @ilyagr, your analysis looks correct. I'm planning to re-work the file&directory selection, and I've made a note to look at excluding paths as well.