On 04/27/2011 04:30 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:00:47PM -0700, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote: >> All, >> >> I have been playing around with rsync getting ready to upgrade to >> Natty. I have an encrypted /home and some reading suggests that >> occasional failures happen to the home partition during installation. >> >> I put together a script sometime back and the external hard drive is now >> full. Have deleted some old backups that weren't necessary to make some >> room. Looking at the logfile...some adjustments are in order. >> >> The question is which of the dot files are really necessary to keep, and >> will it save much room if they are not copied? > With the rsync hardlink option, and the huge hard disks available > these days, you can save thousands of daily snapshots on a hard > disk. The dot files take up almost no room, compared to the log > files and the big data files I create. I can typically get a > year of daily images from 6 machines on a $80 2 terabyte disk > (using the "dirvish" application, written by a friend and hosted > on my server). > > Besides personal files, the dot files are probably the most > important files on your system. They contain a lot of > personalization information. After an unfortunate glibc > upgrade, my .gnome2 and .metacity files got mangled by a > misbehaving desktop, and the daily backups were important > ways of finding out what went wrong, and the source of the > most recent working versions of these dot directories. > > The browser cache is in .mozilla . I haven't looked, but > that is probably the biggest user of dot file space. You > might want to investigate, perhaps add that to your rsync > --exclude-from= file. Don't save that pr0n where the cops > can find it! Let us know what you figure out about that. > > Keith > Keith,
Thanks. I knew they were the config files. Just wondered if there were some more important than the others. I just remembered I am working with a 60G partition and have been backing up 3 machines for a number of years. A new external HD is seriously in order. Not to worry about the pr0n...it is buried well...I myself will never find it!! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
