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

[Thomas Olsen]

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?
 
> Some people enjoy returning to their village after having tried the big
> city. Others cannot let go of the big city despite of all the
> disadvantes living in the big city has. :-)

I'm not quite sure if that analogy is waterproof ;-)

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Olsen
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