Doesn't exclude as many cache directories as it could
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Déjà Dup |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When running deja-dup the app tries to exclude some rubbish (such as caches and temp files) but there is a lot more that could be excluded. The Google Earth cache alone could bankrupt an Ubuntu One user.
I've included a screenshot of the exclusions I have added quickly. I'm sure this could be improved a great deal.
As this is likely to be updated quite regularly maybe it would be worth adding the exclusions to a separate package?
If implemented, there should be an option to include files on the exclude list (i.e. to override) if people really want to.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: deja-dup 22.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 26 22:47:28 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: deja-dup
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-06-26 (0 days ago)
summary: |
- deja-dup backs-up a lot of rubbish + Doesn't exclude as many cache directories as it could |
affects: | deja-dup (Ubuntu) → deja-dup |
~/.cache is secretly excluded by default. And my general answer for these sorts of things is that apps should be putting their cache files in ~/.cache as the XDG spec suggests.
This is a problem for all similar backup apps as well as any other app that cares about what a cache file is. So I'd rather not patch it just in deja-dup.
I've added some popular folders that are unlikely to get fixed soon (like the flash plugin's cache folder), but I don't want to play whack-a-mole.