On Thursday, February 20, 2014 02:19:20 PM John Mort wrote: > 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?
I back-up with rsync. I keep my user data in two separate partitions (1. documents 2. downloads) rather than using /home. I back-up those partitions and do not back-up /home. -- Phenom II X2 550 | Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 | 2 x 4G DDR3 1333 | Maxtor 80G PATA | GeForce 210 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Mar 5 - 11th Anniversary Meeting - Home Network Show and Tell Apr 2 - Nginx: High-Performance HTTP Server, Reverse Proxy, and IMAP/POP3 Proxy Server May 7 - Google App Engine
