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Hi Grant, |
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on Saturday, 2007-09-29 at 16:28:36, you wrote: |
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> Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory? |
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> There seems to be a lot of junk in there. Does something like |
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> '--exclude "/home/user/.*"' work with tar? |
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It certainly does, but I'm quite sure it's not what you want. For me at |
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least losing all my carefully customized stuff in .mutt, .gnupg, |
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.bashrc, .vim etc. would suck asinine reproductive glands. |
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It's usually all text anyway that compresses very well. |
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cheers, |
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Matthias |
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