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Add use case to changelog

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Michael Eischer 2021-07-30 23:02:02 +02:00
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Enhancement: Add --dry-run/-n option to backup command
Testing exclude filters and other configuration options required running a
normal backup. Wrong filters could then cause files to be uploaded
unexpectedly. It was also not possible to approximately determine beforehand
how much data has to be uploaded.
We added a new --dry-run/-n option to the backup command, which performs
all the normal steps of a backup without actually writing any changes to
the repository. Passing -vv will log information about files that would