On Sep 19, Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@ildana.net> wrote: > Unlike Marco, I do see a lot of value in reorganising at least _some_ of > the 'configuration' files of users: seperating out .mozilla web caches > and .evolution IMAP caches greatly relieves the size of backups of ~/ > directories. If all caches were in one directory it would make it What about http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html ? tar supports it. > possible to fit a slimmed /home on a single .iso to archive / backup, > for example, whereas now it takes 2 DVDs due to IMAP and web caches, > etc. It's not like it's an Herculean task to add a couple of directories to the exclude list of your backup program... -- ciao, Marco
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