Output of restic version

restic 0.15.1 compiled with go1.19.5 on darwin/amd64

What should restic do differently? Which functionality do you think we should add?

As with the "restore" command, it would be nice if "rewrite" also had an "include" switch so that you could include only one pattern while excluding the rest.

What are you trying to do? What problem would this solve?

I'd like to "forget" a snapshot, but keep the *.ost and *.pst files just in case. As it stands, I only see two ways of doing this. (A) Restore the snapshot, including only *.ost and *.pst, then create a new snapshot by backing up that folder, or (B) Create a directory listing of everything on the snapshot, remove all the *.ost and *.pst files, create an exclude file from that, then rewrite the snapshot using the exclude file.

Which, of course, would likely work... but an "--include" switch would be way easier :)

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