Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-10-03 Thread Default User
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 2:55 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 02 oct 21, 19:56:02, Default User wrote: > > > > And . . . I make a special point of excluding: > > /media > > /media/* > > /mnt > > /mnt/* > > > > Why? > > > > Because long ago, when I was just learning to use rsync, I tried to > >

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-10-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 02 oct 21, 19:56:02, Default User wrote: > > And . . . I make a special point of excluding: > /media > /media/* > /mnt > /mnt/* > > Why? > > Because long ago, when I was just learning to use rsync, I tried to > use it to do a full-system backup. Since nobody told me that /mnt and > /med

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-10-02 Thread Default User
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 1:54 AM deloptes wrote: > > Default User wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory: > > /home/debian-user > > > > I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup. > > > > But I just need a good, general list

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-09-27 Thread deloptes
Default User wrote: > Hello! > > I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory: > /home/debian-user > > I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup. > > But I just need a good, general list of directory and file type > exclusions that I can just cut and pas

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-09-26 Thread Kushal Kumaran
[slightly re-arranged segments below] On Sat, Sep 25 2021 at 09:03:37 PM, Default User wrote: > > In Vorta, under the "Sources" tab, there is an area (window) for input > into which you can type or paste text, such as: > > **/.cache > > to denote exclusions, that is, things you do not want to ba

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-09-26 Thread Marco Möller
On 26.09.21 00:24, Default User wrote: Hello! I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory: /home/debian-user I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup. But I just need a good, general list of directory and file type exclusions that I can just cut and p

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-09-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 sep 21, 21:03:37, Default User wrote: > > to denote exclusions, that is, things you do not want to back up. > This is from /home/debian_user/.config/backintime/config: > > . . . > profile1.snapshots.exclude.1.value=.gvfs > profile1.snapshots.exclude.2.value=.cache/* > profile1.snapshots

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-09-25 Thread Default User
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 8:04 PM Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 25 2021 at 06:24:12 PM, Default User > wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory: > > /home/debian-user > > > > I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup. >

Re: backup directory/file exclusion pattern list for borgbackup

2021-09-25 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Sat, Sep 25 2021 at 06:24:12 PM, Default User wrote: > Hello! > > I want to try using borgbackup to do backups of my (only) user directory: > /home/debian-user > > I just want to do so using Vorta, a GUI for borgbackup. > > But I just need a good, general list of directory and file type > excl