Thanks zcalusic.
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Are those 5 lines all that are needed in the exclude file? What is the … for and does the file name have to match restic-exclude exactly?
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Can you explain your second bullet point? How is /dev/* different from /dev/? Both are directories but what difference does the wildcard ( * ) make?
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I’m running the unstable version of restic (0.8.3-266). Are you referring to these bugs: #549, #1494? If so, do you know if they have been fixed in the version I am using?
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For disaster recovery you say --one-file-system is not so good, can you elaborate?
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Lastly, what is the advantage of excluding all those files, is it because they are always the same for every system so it would be redundant? I know temp would be empty on a new system but I am not sure about the rest. In otherwords if I wanted to do a full system backup then why should I exclude those directories specifically? Would that not mean that I would lose my configuration and some of my data?