Comment 2 for bug 823719

I tested Backintime with 'rsync --max-size'. According to rsync manpage this is not an exclude option but a transfer option. Which means that (with 'Full rsync mode' disabled) files bigger than max-size that have been transferred in previous snapshots will remain in new snapshots in its old state. This can get quite confusing for users. With 'Full rsync mode' enabled those files are gone in new snapshots like expected.

I would like to open up the discussion here if this would be acceptable or if we should use a different approach. 'rsync --max-size' would be quite easy to implement. An other option would be to scan the entire source for bigger files and exclude them one by one. This would take much more development effort and would take longer for each snapshot.