ZIP Compression for Backups and Help with Exclude Paths

[hanssnah82]

Hello, I'm using nautical-backup for my Docker container backups and have two questions/feature requests:

1. ZIP Compression for Container Backups
   Is it possible to implement an option to automatically compress (ZIP/tar.gz) each container's backed-up folders separately? This would help with reducing backup storage requirements and making it easier to transfer backups. Currently, I'm backing up raw folders that contain thousands of individual files each

2. Excluding Specific Subfolders
   I've been trying to use the exclude option to skip certain subfolders from backups, but haven't been successful. I suspect I'm specifying the paths incorrectly.
   For example, if I have a container with volumes:
   /data/container1/config
   /data/container1/cache
   And I want to exclude the cache folder, what's the correct syntax for the environment variable ⁠RSYNC_CUSTOM_ARGS to exclude the cache folder?

Thank you for this great tool!

[Minituff]

Hey @hanssnah82,

Appologies on getting around to this so late.

1. I really like this idea. I've seen some other users do this with the EXEC commands, but right now there is not a native feature for this...but I feel like I should add it.
2. And yea, I think you're right about using the RSYNC_CUSTOM_ARGS. You should be able to use --exclude='cache/'