Creating a $Conf{BackupFilesFilter} hash analogous to
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} and $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} would allow for
more general --filter= rules for the popular rsync transport method.
The general --filter= methodoolgy is very powerful and allows for much
more granular and powerful include/exclude rules than the simple
concatenation of all the --include elements followed by all the
--exclude elements (and to respond to the code in Rsync.pm, they don't
always commute).
For example, I would like to *exclude* '/var/cache/*/*' but *include*
'/var/cache/apt'.
Without a filter, one would need to add a separate share just to
capture '/var/cache/apt'
The feature addition should be pretty trivial as you would just need to add a
stanza like the following to Rsync.pm after the foreach loop for
BackupFilesExlude:
if ( defined($conf->{BackupFilesFilter}{$t->{shareName}}) ) {
foreach my $file2 ( @{$conf->{BackupFilesFilter}{$t->{shareName}}} ) {
#
# just append additional filter lists onto the end
#
my $file = $file2;
$file = encode($conf->{ClientCharset}, $file)
if ( $conf->{ClientCharset} ne "" );
push(@fileList, "--filter=$file");
Corresponding minor changes to the following files would be required:
- Config.pl
- EditConf.pm
- Meta.pm
- Text.pm
- Protocols.pm
- Lib.pm
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