What is safe to exclude for a full system backup?
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Hi, I'm looking for a list which paths/files are safe to exclude for a full system/home backup.
Considering that I have a list of installed packages.
/home/*/.thumbnails
/home/*/.cache
/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache
/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/OfflineCache
/home/*/.local/share/Trash
/home/*/.gvfs/
/tmp/
/var/tmp/
- not real folders but can cause severe problems when 'restoring'
/dev
/proc
/sys
What about...
/var/
in general?/var/backups/
- can get quite large/var/log/
- does not require much space and can help for later comparison/lost+found/
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