On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 02:02:10PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2015 01:35:55 PM Craig Sanders wrote: > > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:35:39PM +1000, Carl Turney wrote: > > > > > Prior to doing the complete system backups (as outlined in my last > > > email), I enter Firefox and clear all history. > > > > why? it's not going to make that much difference in time taken or > > space consumed. > > I don't know about Mozilla, but my Chrome cache is about 500M on the > laptop I'm using now (which wouldn't rank higher than 3rd place for > active web browsing systems I run). That makes a difference in space > used.
500M isn't much these days. even 5GB is hardly noticable these days. > I think that Chrome isn't particularly good about managing the > cache, for example I think that the cache file from last year is very > unlikely to be of any use. so run a cron job to clear it out every so often - checking to make sure chromium isn't running before deleting anything. > > anyway, there's no need to delete before backing up, just tell rsync > > not to backup that directory. > > Of course a decision to not backup files means that the application > won't have access to them after a restore. So it's worth knowing what > happens if you delete them. A quick test would be a good idea. a cache is, by definition, transient, replaceable data. there should be no problem deleting it (or not backing up). if some program breaks because its cache is missing, then that's a bug that needs to be fixed. craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
