Inclusion and exclusion of individual files apparently works (CLI)
Everyone knows that you can't select individual files for inclusion or exclusion through Déjà Dup's GUI, but forcing them into the include-list and exclude-list GConf keys apparently works.
Michael what is your expert opinion? Is that a happy side effect dangerous to be relied on, or an undocumented feature that is stable enough to be used?
For instance, with the following setup:
d1/f11
d1/f12
d1/d13/f131
d2/f21
d2/f22
d2/d23/f231
include-list ['/home/nael/d1',
exclude-list ['/home/
I expected the following to happen:
d1/f11 included
d1/f12 excluded
d1/d13/f131 excluded
d2/f21 included
d2/f22 excluded
d2/d23/f231 included
Behold, running 'DEJA_DUP_DEBUG=1 deja-dup --backup > deja-dup.log' shows an adequately-
... --include=
--include=
--exclude=
A home/nael/d1
A home/nael/d1/d13
A home/nael/d1/f11
A home/nael/d2
A home/nael/d2/d23
A home/nael/
A home/nael/d2/f21
Restoring these individual files from the command line and Nautilus also works as expected, from what I could see.
If this is a stable feature, even if not a GUI one, it could be useful for, say, backing up the files that store Firefox's bookmarks and saved passwords, without backing up the whole (and ever-changing) profile directory.
(Déjà Dup 30.0 w/ duplicity 0.6.23 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
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