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Allow --files-from multiple times

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Fixes https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2085
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Joe Groocock
2018-11-12 16:54:37 +00:00
committed by Alexander Neumann
parent c8fc72364a
commit 09e9b74cbd
4 changed files with 43 additions and 23 deletions
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doc/040_backup.rst
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@@ -205,8 +205,8 @@ backup ``/sys`` or ``/dev`` on a Linux system:
$ restic -r /srv/restic-repo backup --one-file-system /
By using the ``--files-from`` option you can read the files you want to
backup from a file. This is especially useful if a lot of files have to
be backed up that are not in the same folder or are maybe pre-filtered
backup from one or more files. This is especially useful if a lot of files have
to be backed up that are not in the same folder or are maybe pre-filtered
by other software.
For example maybe you want to backup files which have a name that matches a

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doc/manual_rest.rst
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@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ command:
--exclude-caches excludes cache directories that are marked with a CACHEDIR.TAG file
--exclude-file file read exclude patterns from a file (can be specified multiple times)
--exclude-if-present stringArray takes filename[:header], exclude contents of directories containing filename (except filename itself) if header of that file is as provided (can be specified multiple times)
--files-from string read the files to backup from file (can be combined with file args)
--files-from string read the files to backup from file (can be combined with file args/can be specified multiple times)
-f, --force force re-reading the target files/directories (overrides the "parent" flag)
-h, --help help for backup
--hostname hostname set the hostname for the snapshot manually. To prevent an expensive rescan use the "parent" flag