Hi everyone, I'm backing up my system on a more regular basis and am trying to fine tune the files that I backup. I am looking for advice on what NOT to bother to backup on the /home directory. I am using rsync (took a long time and lots of trials to figure out the man page - and still don't know 90% of it) and presently have the following on my exclude_list.txt: (Note: multiple items shown on one line are just for readability, each line in the file only has one item) tmp* TMP* .cache* cache* Cache* CACHE* *CACHE *Cache *cache .cookies* cookies* Trash Trash* TRASH* Junk* junk* .gvfs Backups backups Crash* .xsession-errors* .macromedia .thumbnails .mozilla/firefox/*/thumbnails *.corrupt minidumps .local/share/gvfs* I'd love to exclude things that perhaps one would never use from a backup to rebuild a system after an accidental clean wipe of all data. Similarly, any recommendations of what I should back up outside of /home? I am thinking of things like /etc/fstab, files that would make it easier to recover from a crash or to upgrade a distro. Thanks for any advice. John.