Your program allows file filtering, why not improve it by adding the ability to filter folders? Allow folders to be excluded or included, within folders selected for backup. Example: I want to backup certain files - only - on my desktop. I don't want any folders from the desktop, while I can uncheck the folders, new folders that I add to the desktop would be backed up unless I manually update the backup job every time I add a new folder.
Limited Filtering
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Just realised the example above may not be entirely clear. It's like this:
Suppose I have a 'FOLDER1' I normally back up in its entirety, and I untag 'subfolder3'. If at a later date the program in that directory creates a 'subfolder6' and 'subfolder7' as well as a host of new files, will they still be included, or will fbackup continue to just back up those folders that are ticked?
Original situation:
Unticking one subfolder:
Program creating two new subfolders:
What happens to the newly created subfolder6 and subfolder7?
Is the folder mask rather "everything that's in there except for subfolder3", or does Fbackup store a folder mask with just the items *ticked* for backup, in other words is this folder mask 'exclude' or 'include'?
Suppose I have a 'FOLDER1' I normally back up in its entirety, and I untag 'subfolder3'. If at a later date the program in that directory creates a 'subfolder6' and 'subfolder7' as well as a host of new files, will they still be included, or will fbackup continue to just back up those folders that are ticked?
Original situation:
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[v] FOLDER1 [v] subfolder1
_ _ _ _ _ _ [v] subfolder2
_ _ _ _ _ _ [v] subfolder3
_ _ _ _ _ _ [v] subfolder4
_ _ _ _ _ _ [v] subfolder5
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[v] FOLDER1 [v] subfolder1
_ _ _ _ _ _ [v] subfolder2
_ _ _ _ _ _ [-] subfolder3
_ _ _ _ _ _ [v] subfolder4
_ _ _ _ _ _ [v] subfolder5
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[v] FOLDER1 [v] subfolder1
_ _ _ _ _ _ [v] subfolder2
_ _ _ _ _ _ [-] subfolder3
_ _ _ _ _ _ [v] subfolder4
_ _ _ _ _ _ [v] subfolder5
_ _ _ _ _ _ [?] subfolder6
_ _ _ _ _ _ [?] subfolder7
Is the folder mask rather "everything that's in there except for subfolder3", or does Fbackup store a folder mask with just the items *ticked* for backup, in other words is this folder mask 'exclude' or 'include'?
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I am the "IT Person" for my Church. I have one machine that I setup users on for members of the church -- for security purposes everyone has their own logon and their logon is passworded. I am using Google Desktop on this machine and its indexes are huge and are put under %userprofile%\local settings\Google -- I don't need to back these indexes up s they would be "re-created" on a new machine if the hard drive was to fail. I have currently 10 users of the one machine and add and subtract users all the time. I would like this feature -- ability to filter by sub-folder... currently, I have to go to every user profile and deselect the Google folder so that these huge files some of them are 4 plus gig which slows the backup process down. Please add the ability to filter by folder as it is cumbersome and time consuming to do it manually. Thank you.