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[Drew Decker]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:54 PM, henri <shustak at connect.homeunix.com> wrote:

> > thanks for your answer , from my point of view the way to make more
> > "coherent" the configuration policy is to make a file where you can put
> > the list of the directories that you want to backup. In the same way of
> > the excluded file
>
> Thank you for this feed back.
>
> I have some developer patches to enable this kind of behavior. I have
> considered this approach.
>
> Essentially, with this developer branch you specify the source as the root
> directory and then there is a source_list.txt which looks from that root
> directory for files to backup. This uses the --files-from rsync parameter.
>
> The reason I have not put this into the main branch is due to the other
> problems and complexity  approach will introduce.
>
> Essentially, there will need to be more checking code in place for all
> these source directories and it makes the entire configuration more complex
> root path and now a bunch of files to include.
>
> However, primarily I am not sure I am happy with the way the backup set
> looks with this approach. Although you end up with a tree which is correct
> the problem is that there are files missing which are not necessarily in the
> excludes list. The reason this is a problem is due to the plans to
> incorporate backup validation tests into LBackup. Not having a list of files
> to exclude complicates this considerably. At the moment backup validation is
> the comparison of a checksum for the backup directory (not included the
> excluded directories) of multiple comparisons of multiple files. It also
> means that if you want to have backup scripts performing certain kinds of
> operations it becomes more complicated if there is more than one source file
> / directory.
>
> If you want this kind of functionality in the short term then I would
> recommend you take a look at LSync which fully supports this kind of
> configuration and will soon support an expert system backend : <
> http://www.lucidsystems.org/tools/lsync>
>
> If you would like to run the patched version of LBackup, I will email you a
> modified backup script with this functionality. However, keep in mind that
> with this approach support will be very limited and until a solid way is
> discovered to implement this feature (I do not think that I have found one
> yet) the feature will not be included in the main LBackup branch.
>
> If you want this kind of functionally within a single configuration file, I
> would recommend you consider at LSync or alternatively backup up the root
> directory of your system and then exclude sections which you do not to have
> included within the backup. In the longer term (or until a really good
> approach is worked out) either of these approaches are recommended and
> supported.
>
> Again, thank you for your feed back on the way you would like to see
> LBackup work. Your ideas are very valuable with regards to the development
> of LBackup.
>
> Thank you again.
>
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