On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 4:58 PM, David Zuccaro <david.zuccaro@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

On 17/12/15 20:00, Robert Parker via luv-main wrote:

Too true Craig.

I do my regular backup without the --delete option but then log what would have been deleted otherwise.
>From time to time I follow that by viewing the log with the cache crap filtered out and when I am happy that the potential deletions are what I intended I run rsync using --delete to get rid of the nonsense.

The problem with this approach is that if you need to do a full restore you will have to restore the cruft and have no way of distinguishing it from the non-cruft.

I only consider stuff like browser cache stuff cruft for when I view my logs. I filter the stuff out when I view my logs so all I see is what I have deleted, not what the applications did.

In the event of a restore I want my browser history back. If there is a bit of stuff there that should not have been because I have not used --delete in a few days, then the browsers will just delete them again. It's nothing I need to worry about.

I do use an --exclude-file for stuff that I really don't want.

Bob