Currently backup ---verbose doesn’t list what files are added.
However backup --verbose --verbose lists all files even those not modified.
When logging - former not so helpful if I want to know when file was added. Latter not so helpful is it includes full list of files which is cumbersome.
Is there any way to get logging level to list out only newly added /modified files? (A verbosity level of 1.5 so to speak!)
If I recall correctly there is a “latest” that can be used as a snapshot ID; is there something with 2nd-latest ? I ask because keeping track of the IDs would be introduce state into the backup job handling which is a complication.
Yeh a bit annoying to set up as would need additional “list” run and lot of munging to extract out the last two IDs (and then another diff run to add to the logs)
I am comparing against borg and it’s verbose output show modified/added files only. Its really helpful because I can see from the backup logs which smallest (no extra lines; nothing new backed up) and larger (more lines so listing out files) and zoom on what was done in each backup fairly easily.
I think this should be considered as no file-level output and all files listed seems to be two extremes.
The following added to your backup script will give you the diff of the last two snapshots. There is another, simpler way of doing it, but I could never get it to work.