support general patterns

[TheRealDarklord]

The problem

Currently i cannot exclude a directory and then include a subdirectory of that excluded one in the backup as Vorta supports exclude patterns only.

Requested Solution

As written in the explanation to borg patterns (https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/help.html#borg-patterns) borg supports include and exclude patterns if it is used with the "right" argument. Vorta uses the exclude-argument which prevents the usage of include patterns.

So the requested solution would be to allow the usage of the more general patterns instead of the exclude-option solely.

Alternatives

The alternative with current capabilities would be to explicitly add all subdirectories and files of my home directory without the games dir. In addition I would then select the specific paths within the games directory. This way I could work around the exclusion of "games" and have its targeted subdirectories included.
The downside is that any new directory in my home directory needs to be added manually in Vorta. So it's not a viable alternative imho.

Additional context

I use Vorta to backup my home directory. In my home directory is a subdirectory for my installed games. I do not want to include those gigabytes of game files within the backup so naturally I exclude that subdirectory. But I DO want to backup specific game related files, e.g. savegames and settings. These reside in various subdirectories of the games directory.

[quercus-carsten]

I think I am in the same situation. I wanted to backup my linux home directory without the "." files and folders. But there are exceptions like ".ssh", ".profile", ".bashrc" which I'd like to keep.
So I added those into vorta "sources" but didn't get the expected result. Seems like "excluded items" overrule my includes.

If I understand the borg documentation correctly then you could potentially work with "+" and "-" to mark include and exclude rules. By orderly assembling them you could go ahead and e. g. make specific includes in a directory followed by a general exclude - like:

# keep some dot files and dot folders
+ home/foobar/.ssh
+ home/foobar/.bashrc
+ home/foobar/.profile

# get rid of the rest which begins with a dot
- home/foobar/[.][a-zA-Z0-9]*

# backup home
+ home/foobar/[a-zA-Z0-9]*

If that's general patterns , then I would like this feature too.

I think having a separate sources tab and menu for exclusions maybe wouldn't fit in this usecase... Why not have a "raw" rules (general patterns?) tab, which can be filled like the example above to have includes and excludes together in one place. This way you would be able to manage the order of your rules.