I run rsync to backup my Ubuntu machines periodically. All I grab is /home, figuring anything else can just be reinstalled and reconfigured. Watching the backup run today, I noticed that I'm backing up everything in ~/.local/share/Trash is being backed up. This is both unnecessary, and makes the backup take a lot longer than it otherwise would since I only empty the trash when I'm running out of space.
So I looked around and found that there's a way to set up a file listing locations to exclude from an rsync run, and began creating such a file. I was just wondering if anyone else backs up their machine with rsync, and if so, what folders or files have you excluded?
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