[kdepim-users] Kinda OT: Re: Kontact save location?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 07 November 2011, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Sunday 06 November 2011 23:49 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > Maintaining a whitelist of things to backup is not nearly as easy
> > as maintaining a blacklist of things not to backup. If your
> > whitelist misses crucial entries then you risk losing data. OTOH,
> > if your blacklist misses entries then the worst that can happen is
> > that you waste a bit of storage space on your backup medium
> > because you are backing up stuff you do not need to back up.
> > 
> > Currently, I regularly backup $HOME except for
> > 
> >         lost+found/
> >         core
> >         .nfs*
> >         *~
> >         .cache/*
> >         .enigma/thumbs/*
> >         .fontconfig/*cache-2
> >         .java/deployment/cache/*
> >         .kde*/share/apps/kio_http/cache/*
> >         .kde*/share/apps/kpdf/[0-9]*.xml
> >         .kde*/share/cache/*
> >         .kde*/share/thumbnails/*
> >         .mozilla/**/Cache/*
> >         .opera/cache4/*
> >         .thumbnails/*
> >         .xmoto/LCache/*
> >         .xvpics/*
> >         compiled/*
> 
> I'd love to get a peek at your backup script to see how you exclude
> the files. Is it an exclude list for tar of rsync or whatever?

I'm using dirvish (http://www.dirvish.org/). Internally dirvish uses 
rsync.


Regards,
Ingo
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