[K12OSN] IDE if /home is NFS?
dahopkins at comcast.net
dahopkins at comcast.net
Thu Apr 1 13:11:04 UTC 2004
> One thing I have thought about w/ NFS mounted homes is the temp files
> some apps put hidden ~/.foo directories. The GIMP can be reconfigured to
> swap to /tmp rather than ~/.gimp-1.2, but Mozilla writes it's browser
> cache to home. Seems lame to back that up every night.
>
Using rsync you can create an exclude list so that these are not backed up. I just use a wildcard approach and skip all directories with *cache* in the path. Another type of file to skip are core.* files which the staff seem to find a way to create. Other backup software has similar capabilities.
Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins
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