[Debian-l10n-devel] What to backup?

Eddy Petrișor eddy.petrisor at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 07:44:22 UTC 2008


Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) (faw at funlabs.org):
> 
>> 	Actually it is quite hard to mirror everything, it
>> seems that a lot of $HOME and other directories contain
>> data being completely regenerated, which is bad for the
>> rsnapshot model of using hardlinks.
>>
>> 	The question is: what can I exclude from the
>> backup that could be regenerated from the data on the
>> bakcup?
> 
> 
> /home/bubulle entirely
> 
> in /home/eddyp, there's a giant mail directory which is probably never
> read. Eddy, couldn't you forward your mail to your mail address?

Remove those. I am 99% sure they are cron jobs' output :-D .

> Eddy has "public_html/compendiums/po" which is obviously
> auto-generated. However, I think that this compendium stuff should now
> go in a general area more than eddy's home.

> Communication between us
> ------------------------
> Folks who have an account on churro, could you subscribe to
> debian-l10n-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org ? Of course, in case this is
> something you haven't already done..:)
> 
> For thos of you who do IRC, I also suggest you hook up on #debian-i18n
> on irc.debian.org, preferrably permanently if you have the needed
> setup (IRC proxy, screened irssi client). Having that IRC channel as
> an easy way to communicate between us would be good.


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Regards,
EddyP
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