Thats interesting because I recently tackled the same problem of storing configuration details for backing up files. I took Python's ConfigParser module and mo

Thats interesting because I recently tackled the same problem of storing configuration details for backing up files. I took Python's ConfigParser module and modified it to suit my needs. The config file looks a bit like this: [directory-details] path = /media/programming exclude_dirs = *log_files, *temp_files [directory-details] path = /media/documents exclude_dirs = /media/documents/archive Honestly, though, xml is a perfectly valid format for storing such configuration.