Comment 8 for bug 374274

Filename patterns and user-defined include-/exclude-priorities are IMHO indispensable in a well-done backup scheme. As already written, the problem is to keep the GUI clear and understandable for the "normal user".

I order to have this feature quickly available without the need to plan a big GUI redesign, I suggest to simply provide a gconf key where a path to a globbing filelist – which can contain includes and excludes as well – can be lodged. This could be done via gconf-edit or a Deja-Dup command line option, e.g. --use-globbing-filelist <filename> – and maybe by a file selector for this in Deja-Dup's GUI, too. Then Duplicity just could be served that globbing filelist.
This way the "experts" among us can use Deja-Dup with include/exclude rules perfectly tailored to their needs, while the "normal user" has no problems with GUI options he does not understand.