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Best practices to exclude cache folders to speed up backup #1594
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Hi, thank you for bringing this up! I noticed the same when using BackInTime myself. I'm afraid there is no easy way that works for all users. Excluding all folders named So maybr the FAQ could just include a hint to check the logs and find folders to exclude, like you did. |
Sure, my question was more about proper exclude patterns for cache folders in general. At the moment I decided to play it save and use the following
for the above mentioned folders. |
Definitely! And we could also add two buttons to link to the FAQ for
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Those are excellent points! One thing that we might have to decide is whether to recommend using
will back up the folder itself, but not its content, while
won't even back up the folder. So I wonder which approach should we recommend in the FAQ? |
Related to #1555 (mentions how to exclude Mozilla and Discord lock files) |
What need to be done?Add an entry into the FAQ.md how to solve the problem. |
Hey folks!
Going through the log, I've noticed that a lot of small files within cache folders significantly slow down the backup process and in addition to that it actually makes no sense to back them up anyway.
So I wonder what's the best way to exclude such folders elegantly by using excluding patterns?
Adding them manually would be too cumbersome, since only some apps have only one dedicated cache folder, some have several, but in Firefox each site has its own cache folder. See several examples:
The solution could be added to the FAQ section, since every BiT user would profit from it.
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