[K12OSN] exclude file for rsync backups

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 12:36, Rob Owens wrote:
> Does anybody have an exlude file that they'd care to
> share with me?  I'm looking to do backups via rsync
> and I don't want to back up junk like web browser
> cache, deleted emails, etc. 
> 
> I've been browsing all the hidden files in my home
> directory to find the useless stuff, but if somebody
> has already done that work I'd appreciate hearing
> about it.

If you used backuppc, the compression and pooling would save
enough space that you wouldn't have to worry about little
things like that - except maybe /proc, /var/spool/squid/, and
slocate.db.

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   Les Mikesell
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