On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:35:39PM +1000, Carl Turney wrote: > Prior to doing the complete system backups (as outlined in my last > email), I enter Firefox and clear all history.
why? it's not going to make that much difference in time taken or space consumed. and you can always use --exclude to tell rsync not to backup certain files or directories. > But, during the backup (after booting into Recovery mode), rsync > displays the copying of MANY files within this directory... > > /home/user/.cache/mozilla/firefox/abcd1234.default/cache2/trash/3363925 > > Given the names of some of those directories, I wonder if it is safe > to delete them (rm -r) just before the backup? > > If so, at which level... trash? cache2? anyway, there's no need to delete before backing up, just tell rsync not to backup that directory. you could probably exclude the entire ~/.cache directory from the rsync backup. e.g. by adding --exclude='/home/*/.cache/' to your rsync command line. (NOTE: depending on exactly what you are backing up, you may or may not need the leading / on /home in that pattern. rsync filter patterns are strange - different to both glob patterns and regexps - and, IME, take some trial and error to get right. use the --dry-run option for testing. see the rsync man page and search for FILTER PATTERNS. IIRC if you are backing up from / then you want the pattern to start with /home, if you are backup up from /home then the exclude pattern would be better written as '*/.cache/') or if you just want to exclude the mozilla cache, try something like: --exclude='**.mozilla**cache**' you can get rsync to delete the directories from the target if they were backed up on previous runs with '--delete-excluded --force' craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
