Saving your $HOME space

Posted Jan 11, 2009 19:56 UTC (Sun) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Saving your $HOME space by felixrabe
Parent article: BleachBit: Does GNU/Linux need the equivalent of a Windows registry cleaner?

Omit the offending subdirectory during backup. Piece of cake with rsync

But not always with other backup methods. In fact, in a corporate environment you may not have any control over how the backup is made. And this still does not address the inherent inefficiency of using a network directory or USB stick for temporary storage. No, the cache directory really must be somewhere else than $HOME.