Hi everybody.
First of all, I am using the web interface.
I feel a bit lost here. What is the use case for folder actions? How to use them correctly?
Let’s assume I have the following directory I want to backup:
/data/
--.kopiaignore
--documents/
--stuff-i-want-to-ignore/
-ignore-me-a.txt
-ignore-me-b.txt
--a.txt
--b.txt
--c.txt
--pictures/
--stuff-i-want-to-ignore/
-ignore-me-1.jpg
-ignore-me-2.jpg
--1.jpg
--2.jpg
--3.jpg
.kopiaignore file content:
/documents/stuff-i-want-to-ignore/
/pictures/stuff-i-want-to-ignore/
If I a define a before-snapshot action and a before-folder action in the /data path policy, both actions are being executed exactly once with KOPIA_SOURCE_PATH=/data.
I would expect/hope that the before-folder action would be called for each “individual folder”:
/data/data/documents/data/pictures
That way I could perform preparation tasks depending on the subdirectory that is being backed up.
If I create a new policy with target path /data/documents and add a before-folder action, it will be executed when backing up /data. But this also creates a new snapshot for /data/documents, including /documents/stuff-i-want-to-ignore/* in the backed up files, since the kopiaignore file is located in the root directory /data.
This doesn’t seem right to me. Why can’t I have a policy for /data/documents without having a corresponding snapshot?