Bug#557951: option to force backup (--include-if-present)

[Pablo Mestre]

As this bugs is a request for the upstreamer I open an issue [1] and
forward the request to this bug.

[1] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/625

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Bug#557951: option to force backup (--include-if-present)

[Pablo Mestre]

Hi

Thank you very much for reporting this error.

I would like to ask you if this error is still present in the most
recent versions of rdiff-backup. Currently after a series of
improvements and bug fixes, rdiff-backup is at version 2.0.5 [1]

It would be very helpful if you checked again if this bug is still present. 
Otherwise we can agree to close the bug,

[1] https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/releases/tag/v2.0.5

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Bug#557951: option to force backup (--include-if-present)

[Alexander Gerasiov]

Package: rdiff-backup
Severity: wishlist

We have --exclude-if-present to let user specify, they don't want this to be
backuped. But look at the following situation:
I backup users' data. There are some multimedia, iso images etc, that I don't
want to keep. So I set --max-file-size=500M. But sometimes user's still need
such files to be backuped, so it would be nice, if I can specify

--exclude-if-present=.no-backup --include-if-present=.force-backup 
--max-file-size=500M

and got the following: if there is .no-backup file, directory would not be 
backuped, if
not, and there is .force-backup, then all files and subdirs would be backuped 
(until
there is somewhere .no-backup), and if there is none of that files, all files 
and subdirs
not greater then 500M would be backuped.

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