Hear me out on this one; how hard would it be on successful backups to perform a countdown timer. This timer will apply a flag to directories you specify like this:
C:\Users|Users/follow_symlinks,optional,count_exclude_5
# This will exclude the directory for 5 times, and the 6th time it will be included.
C:\Users|Users/count_include_5
# This will include the directory for 5 times, and the 6th time will be excluded.
###To make it way more complicated
C:\Users|Users/count_exclude_5_include_2
# This will exclude the directory for 5 times, and the 6th and 7th time will be included.
C:\Users|Users/count_include_5_exclude_2
# This will include the directory for 5 times, and the 6th and 7th time will be excluded.
It was mainly a strange thought as an easier way to making different directories backup on different days, you could just have certain directories only backup certain times.
Like, if you only want C:\Users
back up once a week, then you add in count_exclude_6
.
And if you want it to backup once a week, then wait a week, count_include_6_exclude_7
.
This is probably way more complicated, and will be horrible on larger lists, but for small directories that you only want once in a while this wouldn’t be too bad. (I would think)
Edit: Of course, it is based around backups. So, if someone had 5 hour intervals, and wanted a once a week backup. Then they would have to use some math and create an include/exclude flag for like include_30_exclude_60
or something.