GameServerManagers / GameServerManagers/LinuxGSM

[FEATURE] Add a blacklist file to prevent from backing up useless files

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## My use case

I use LGSM to manage CS:GO servers, and I do backup every other weeks. However, each backup takes up to 13GB of space, and takes around 10 mins with the CPU running at 100% to complete.

## The Idea

A way to reduce space taken up and time to run would be to implement a blacklist of the files we don't want to backup. In CS:GO's specific case, all `.vpk` files can be ignored for (i think) 99% of installation as they are only generic texture files that can be reobtained by running `./csgoserver validate`.

A CS:GO server install is around 22Go without any custom maps. There are 166 `.vpk` files, each taking up more or less 120MB. The exact space they take up is around 20Go. Ignoring those files would shrink the backup file by around 90%.

## My take on how to implement this

The simplest solution would be to whitelist files by extensions, (i.e ignore all `.vpk` files in my case)

However, for CS:GO and other source based games, it might be interesting to ignore some map files, while keeping others, for example not backing up `de_dust2.bsp` but backing up `de_custommap.bsp`.

Therefore, the best way to go around this would be to have a file called `backup_blacklist.txt` somewhere in `lgsm/` and adding each file to be ignored, with its extension, line by line in this file.

I made a similar script using Python to generate a maplist.txt file which you can find [here](https://github.com/Sarrus1/maplistGenerator) if that helps.

Thanks a lot for reading!

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