On 12/28/2022 6:34 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:20:57 -0800
Samuel Sieb wrote:
Just because they are a cache doesn't mean they are necessarily safe to
delete while running. Most applications take care of managing their
cache files.
I used to try and deal with avoiding backups of "unimportant" stuff
until I discovered that various directories in my dovecot mail directory
had names like "cache" and "temp", but if not restored from backup it
was a lot of work to get mail functioning correctly after restoring.
I finally got it through my head that disk space is pretty darn cheap
and I might as well backup virtually everything. I still skip a few
things that seem gigantic where I can't imagine any reason to back them up
like swap files.
I didn't want to get stuff all cluttered and confused. If I backed up
all cache data and restored, which I do quite a bit, I would have so
many backups of unimportant data. Sometimes too, to me, a fresh start is
warranted.
B
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