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