** Description changed: - Steam games are enormous, synchronized, and off-site. No need to back - them up. + [Impact] + Steam is coming to Ubuntu (already in beta). Steam games are enormous, synchronized, and off-site. No need to back them up. - Apparently ~/.steam/root points to the install location of Steam. (Not - sure what the difference is between ~/.steam/root and ~/.steam/steam...) + Once users start playing Steam games, a user that enabled backups with + Deja Dup's default settings will find that all of a sudden, many gigs of + data are being backed up. + + Now, obviously this is a bit of a whack-a-mole problem. Many apps like + Steam don't properly follow the XDG basedir spec and put cached data in + ~/.cache so that Deja Dup and similar apps will ignore them. And we + don't want to SRU a fix for every single non-compliant app. + + But Steam is a big one. It's both very popular and its data is very + very large. I think it's worth an exception to avoid the pain and bug + reports that will come when many people suddenly add multiple gigs of + useless data to their backups. + + [Workaround] + A user can simply add ~/Steam to the backup ignore list. But every single user that uses Steam will want to do that. It's a big burden to ask of each user individually. + + [Test Case] + Try backing up your home directory with Steam installed. Notice that it will include ~/Steam. With this patch (from upstream), it will ignore ~/Steam instead. + + [Regression Potential] + It's a very simple fix. I think regression potential is exceedingly tiny. + + [Fix Details] + We add ~/.steam/root to the hidden default ignore list. ~/.steam/root points at ~/Steam (which will also be ignored) unless the user has manually changed it.
** Patch added: "quantal.debdiff" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/1083237/+attachment/3451943/+files/quantal.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1083237 Title: Ignore Steam files by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1083237/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
