Have a look at
http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/Common_backup_excludes
I find the linux excludes somewhat spartiate - different utilities place
backkup and temporary files at well hidden places. I just started
getting things together, my intial setup for my home directory
illustrates that there may be need for additional items to add to the
examples quoted above - the kde Trash file is a good example. And I have
not yet started hunting for temporary files produced by various Unix
utilities.
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
harms => [
'/tmp',
'/.local/share/Trash',
'*~', '#*#'
]
};
For windows, I do not know enough to point out useless stuff. My initial
exclude files are simply dictated by what I find in the error log -
files that backuppc could not access, because Skype, Thunderbird etc.
are using them - I like to have 0 errors unless backup really requires
attention. Starting from the example in the URL quoted above and adding
files I found in the error log, I added quite some Skype files, and had
to deal with the fact the different Mozilla version place the same kind
of file at /Application Data and at /Local Settings/Application Data - I
simple added pairs of items to catch both.
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