Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

FR: Exclude preset for common directories and files. #1917

Open
quazgar opened this issue Jan 28, 2024 · 1 comment
Open

FR: Exclude preset for common directories and files. #1917

quazgar opened this issue Jan 28, 2024 · 1 comment
Labels
type:enhancement Improvement of an existing function

Comments

@quazgar
Copy link

quazgar commented Jan 28, 2024

The problem

By default backing up home directories includes a lot of unnecessary and possibly rapidly changing stuff.

Requested Solution

There should be an additional exclude preset for these cases. Maybe some inspiration could be taken from the quite usable defaults list of backintime? Here's a link to their patterns.

What I find especially useful is to exclude trash folders (being obsoleted by backups, though probably harmless because of deduplication) and caches in ~/.cache/ (27 GB here).

Alternatives

None considered.

Additional context

@real-yfprojects real-yfprojects added the type:enhancement Improvement of an existing function label Feb 9, 2024
@real-yfprojects
Copy link
Collaborator

Feel free to open a PR!

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
type:enhancement Improvement of an existing function
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants