I'm not sure why this is considered of low importance: excluding file types is something essential in any backup system. Considering this is the "official" back up solution on Ubuntu, I'd consider changing the priority!
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/783730 Title: Unable to exclude files by extension/filetype Status in “deja-dup” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: deja-dup There is no option to *not* backup files with certain filetype/extensions. It would be useful to set exclusion based on filetypes. eg: .vdi files; while I could set an exclusion for the .VirtualBox folder, this would just also ignore the VB setup files too. It would be useful to backup the setup files while excluding the massive .vdi. or. .avi files; usually I download videos to ~/Downloads folder along with other files I download. While I dont require backups of the Downloaded videos, I would like to be able to backup other files that I download to that folder, so setting an exclusion for ~/Downloads folder does not help here. An option such as "Do not backup files of filetype" is useful when we do not require backups for the filetypes. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: deja-dup 16.1.1-0ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-02063802-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue May 17 04:04:47 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100924) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_IN SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: deja-dup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/783730/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
