[pve-devel] [PATCH manager] Delete "exclude" when switching a backup job to pool

[Stefan Reiter]

On 8/14/19 12:03 PM, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 8/6/19 um 2:41 PM schrieb Stefan Reiter:
>> I don't see a reason to blanket-forbid excluding VMs in pool backups, so I felt leaving the API unchanged was the better option in this case. The GUI is the broken part, the API is working fine, albeit for a use-case it wasn't intentionally designed for.
>>
> 
> But then the WebGUI would need to be adapted to cope with such a case,
> as currently adding excludes to a pool based backup job results in a
> rather strange and wrong visualization, e.g., "All except 1074" here,
> but all is not selected and editing the job shows an inconsistent wrong
> state too.
> 

That's why I made the patch to the UI, since it is the component that 
breaks. If the user knows what they are doing, they can still do so. I 
see your point though.

>> That said, I'm fine with either change.
> 
> I'd rather say we need both, or?

That would be unnecessary, since both patches mentioned here would only 
lead to deleting the "exclude" data from the update API call. Ignoring 
external API calls, they basically to the same thing.

> 
> "Pool Based" backup jobs should stay simple, and as it does not really
> works in all cases I'd rather prevent exclusions with that mode.
> People needing to exclude some VMs can just use other modes..
> 

In that case I'd say we go for Tims backend version. I'll send the 
change as a v2 to make it better to apply.

> PS: please avoid "top posting" if possible :)
>