On 12/23/2016 12:11 PM, John Moniz via talk wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm backing up my system on a more regular basis and am trying to fine
tune the files that I backup. I am looking for advice on what NOT to
bother to backup on the /home directory.
I am using rsync (took a long time and lots of trials to figure out
the man page - and still don't know 90% of it) and presently have the
following on my exclude_list.txt:
(Note: multiple items shown on one line are just for readability, each
line in the file only has one item)
tmp* TMP*
.cache* cache* Cache* CACHE* *CACHE *Cache *cache
.cookies* cookies*
Trash Trash* TRASH*
Junk* junk*
.gvfs
Backups backups
Crash*
.xsession-errors*
.macromedia
.thumbnails
.mozilla/firefox/*/thumbnails
*.corrupt
minidumps
.local/share/gvfs*
I'd love to exclude things that perhaps one would never use from a
backup to rebuild a system after an accidental clean wipe of all data.
Similarly, any recommendations of what I should back up outside of
/home? I am thinking of things like /etc/fstab, files that would make
it easier to recover from a crash or to upgrade a distro.
Thanks for any advice.
Take a look at rdiff-backup I prefer it over rsync because it keeps a
history as diffs from the current backup.
Backups are not just disaster recovery sometimes you need to go back a
week to find that file you accidentally deleted.
As a rule I do full backups because I have been burned by backing up
just the "critical" information only to find that there was other
information pushed all over the system.
Database backups need to be handled somewhat special because most
databases do not guarantee that the binary file backup will not be
corrupted if the server is active while the data is being backed up.
I will exclude things like /tmp and /var/tmp but I make sure I keep the
/var/log/* files because the log files are the first thing someone who
compromises your system will delete.
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