Support Backfills for a subset of Tasks
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Description
### Description
We want the ability to support backfilling only a subset of tasks. Ideally this would be done via a task regex parameter or something similar
### Use case/motivation
We have DAGs that write multiple datasets out, and we frequently have cases where we wish to backfill on a specific dataset (therefore a specific task or task(s))
Another example is sensors for historical data, where the external sensors may depend on data that is no longer there (i.e. task sensors after the metadata db has had historical data deleted for performance etc.)
### Related issues
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### Are you willing to submit a PR?
- [ ] Yes I am willing to submit a PR!
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Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating Airflow's backfill command and task-selection handling, then define how selecting tasks by regex should work for dataset backfills and sensors, including tests that demonstrate the intended subset behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100