Proxmox Backup Client headaches

[Romainp]

Hi!
First, let me say that I love the proxmox backup solution I found that so cool that I wanted to have my REHL8 systems backed up using the cli.
Problem is ... there are a lot of things in the cli version that I do not get at all
Maybe because I do not understand how it is suposed to work but I found difficult to do simple things.
Let me explain:

I have this for ex:

root@Unknown host-v mnt $ cd /tmp/
root@Unknown host-v tmp $ tree -F
.
├── code-4742872c-2300-4e9a-9b55-297fdd97a803=
├── fancy-motd.tgz
├── hsperfdata_root/
│     └── 1619
├── python-languageserver-cancellation/
├── sntmp_783688709/
├── sub/
│    ├── test/
│        └── encore/
│    └── test2/
│        └── paf/

root@Unknown host-v tmp $ cd /mnt/
root@Unknown host-v mnt $ tree -F
.
├── lost+found/
├── potato
└── test/
    └── test_sub/
        └── file.txt

What I want:
* backup /tmp/sub
* backup /mnt/
* do not backup /tmp/sub/test
* do not backup /mnt/test

I wanted to try (because If it's it's allowed?) to do something like this

$ proxmox-backup-client backup  root.pxar:/tmp/sub mnt.pxar:/mnt --include-dev /mnt --exclude */test --exclude */sub/test

It gives me this:

root@Unknown host-v ~ $ proxmox-backup-client catalog dump host/host-v/2025-03-27T22:41:26Z
d "./root.pxar.didx"
d "./root.pxar.didx/test2"
d "./root.pxar.didx/test2/paf"
f "./root.pxar.didx/.pxarexclude-cli" 18 1969-12-31T19:00:00Z
d "./mnt.pxar.didx"
d "./mnt.pxar.didx/lost+found"
f "./mnt.pxar.didx/potato" 0 2021-05-04T11:24:48Z
f "./mnt.pxar.didx/.pxarexclude-cli" 18 1969-12-31T19:00:00Z

so.. it seems to work because I loose the information about what was the source folder? like for root.pxar, there is no indication about what was the source folder (/tmp/sub)
is it the right way to handle this?
I have try to play with select only the folder using reverse logic in .pxarexclude, like

/.pxarexclude

but it started to be very complication to add exclude to this...

Any help will be very appreciated on giving me the good pratices about this cli

Thanks!

 

[Romainp]

My ultiamte goal is to be able to ease the backup with a script
you put what you want like
-i (include)
/this
/that
/also_this_mount_point
you don't want
-e
/this/thing
/or_this

and it will generate the exclude/command line automatically