Useful exclude patterns

[gerardbosch]

@arikb

I’m going to leave my exclude file here. I think that, if there’s interest, it could become a repository of exclude patterns for all sorts of users, perhaps should go on the wiki some day. If you have your own excludes to share I’ll be happy to learn from others.

I posted the one I’m trying with here:

Exclusion file / ignore proposal for backup

(I cannot edit the original message so I post again) A little more updated file for excludes: $HOME/NoBackup/* $HOME/Downloads/* $HOME/Pictures/* $HOME/Dropbox/* $HOME/.ecryptfs $HOME/.Private $HOME/.cache $HOME/.gvfs $HOME/.local/share/gvfs-metadata $HOME/.dbus $HOME/.Trash $HOME/.local/share/Trash $HOME/.cddb $HOME/.aptitude $HOME/.bash_history ############################################### # Directories, probably not worth a backup # # (uncomment the files you don't need) # ###…