exclusion list

[ceg]

Please add exclusion entries for firefox cache files to the default exclusion list:
/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache
/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/OfflineCache

I intentionally included /home/ because it should also work when BiT does a system backup as root.
The ~/ pattern points only to one path (in this case /root).

Actually there are different types of files to exclude. Some files can be excluded from backup altogether (cache files, thumbnails etc.), others should be excludeable from older snapshots but the file should still always be present in the backup (the last snapshot). Files of the latter type include repository files of versioning systems (cvs,svn,bazaar,...) and some databases.

*,v for example should catch rcs files that should be in the backup, but not in every different version.

Other exclusion entries that could be available as preconfigured entries, but deactivated by default:
/home/*/.VirtualBox/HardDisks
/home/*/.VirtualBox/Machines/*/Logs
/home/*/.VirtualBox/Machines/*/Snapshots

This is deja-dup's build-in exclude list:
~/.cache
~/.thumbnails
~/.gvfs
~/.xsession-errors
~/.recently-used.xbel
~/.recent-applications.xbel
~/.Private
/proc
/tmp
/sys

[Dan (danleweb)]

I can add firefox cache by default but you can always add them manually. Everyone has it's own needs.
I don't agree about VirtualBox harddisks. Some peoples may want to backup them.

Regards,
Dan

[ceg (ceg)]

Hi,
you're right, the VirtualBox paths should probably not be active by default. I have added the rules manually, and wanted to post them so they can be added/documented with the default list. Maybe, if activating/deactivating rules where possible, paths like those for VitrualBox could be shipped but be deactivated by default, while the cache paths can be shiped active.

[ceg (ceg)]

In fact, I'd like to have backups of large files like the virtual box images, just not all old versions from it.

We'd need an "exclude from snapshotting" (aka nocow, no copy on wirte) list.