Open m3nu opened 1 month ago
The following screenshot shows the "exclude dialog" in Vorta 0.9.1.
Perhaps, the following would be less confusing:
Title: Exclude files and folders Dialog text: Exclude files and folders from the backup. Exclude uses file name pattern matching (fnmatch) by default, see documentation. To add multiple patterns at once, use the "Raw" tab
Thank you for the flexible interface for "exclude"!
There is one point that is quite confusing in borg - and since Vorta is referring to the borg documentation, this applies to Vorta too.
In borg there are two distinct sets of options which can be used for excludes:
--exclude
and--exclude-from
AND--pattern
or--patterns-from
Only the second set of options uses the term "pattern" in its name. To cite the borg documentation:
If I understand correctly, currently, Vorta only supports
--exclude
. This should be stressed in the user interface (which links to the borg documentation) to reduce the confusion.Originally posted by @goebbe in https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/issues/907#issuecomment-2353452340