Backup exclusion lists

I share my backup exclusion list as a typical Ubuntu and Gnome user in case some one might find it useful.

How to use

Save some of the exclusion lists, check backup size before manual backup.

$ du -sh -X exclude.lst ~

Exclusion lists

A basic exclusion list, reason given in comments.

Note the first two folders normally residents in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/

OfflineCache
Cache
.beagle	
.cache
cache
.Trash
.local/share/Trash
.thumbnails
.~lock.*
*~
.*.swp

An agressive additional exclusion list.

Note the first two folders normally residents in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/*/

ImapMail
global-messages-db.sqlite
Downloads
incoming
music		
Music
Movies
Videos
*.avi
*.AVI
*.rm
*.RM
*.rmvb
*.RMVB
*.mkv
*.MKV
*.ape
*.APE
*.dc++
My Music
MyMusic
.wine
.cxoffice
cxoffice
.vmware

The 3rd list is of the files to be backed up separately

Dropbox
public_html	
Photos

Grab the whole list

Since the exclusion list lines are the only lines in this file that don't contain HTML, to grab the whole list:

$ wget -qO - http://www.zhangweiwu.name/100429.html | grep -v -e '[<"]' -e '^$'