[New-bugs-announce] [issue41081] Exclude __pycache__ directories from backups using CACHEDIR.TAG

[Jakub Stasiak]

New submission from Jakub Stasiak <jakub+python.org at stasiak.at>:

It'd be nice of __pycache__ directories didn't pollute backups. Granted, one can add __pycache__ directory to their backup-tool-of-choice exclusion list, but those lists are ever growing and maybe it'd be good to help the tools and the users.

There's a Cache Directory Tagging Specification[1] which some backup tools like Borg, restic, GNU Tar and attic use out of the box (well, with a switch) and other tools (like rsync, Bacula, rdiff-backup and I imagine others) can be made to use it with a generic exclude-directories-with-this-file-present option (partially, just the existence of the tag file is used, not its content).


I wasn't sure what to select in Components, so I went with Library.
[1] https://bford.info/cachedir/

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 372109
nosy: jstasiak
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Exclude __pycache__ directories from backups using CACHEDIR.TAG
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.10

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