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@ramcq

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When setting up new backup profiles, one thing I look out for when setting up the exclude patterns is whether there is something included that should not be - caches, large downloaded files, special filesystem mounts, etc. Sometimes if I make a mistake, I only notice part way through the backup when I see the status/info that a file I don't want is being backed up, and at this point the only option I have is to cancel and start the backup over again, losing a lot of time.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great if Vorta offered a way to do a dry run and list the files that were included in the backup, so that I could inspect for files which I didn't want to include in the backup (or if the exclude pattern was done wrong). If it could be sorted by size and mtime, that would also allow easy inspection for large files, and recently-modified ones (eg cache/scratch data which could cause noise/churn in the backups).

Describe alternatives you've considered
Because I don't know how to set up a borg commandline that matches what is configured via the UI, I'm not sure if there is an easy alternative to Vorta doing this for me. Perhaps there is but if you could let me know that would be superb! Thanks for BorgBackup, Vorta and BorgBase - I'm really happy so far.

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