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| ==== Suggested filters when backing up your Home folder ==== | ==== Suggested filters when backing up your Home folder ==== | ||
| - | //Home folder// means here ''ANOTHER_DISK_THAN_C:\Users\your_login'', assuming that you have followed the instructions in [[other:win10config#configuring_folders_and_shortcuts|Configuring folders]] to create a //Home folder// distinct from your default //Windows home folder// on ''C:\'' | + | //Home folder// means here ''ANOTHER_DISK_THAN_C:\Users\your_login'', assuming that you have followed the instructions in [[other:win10config#configuring_folders_and_shortcuts|Configuring folders]] to create a //Home folder// distinct from your default //Windows home folder// on ''C:\''... |
| - | Note: we assume in the filters below that the [[other:thunderbird#moving_the_tb_configuration_directory_to_a_specific_directory|Thunderbird and Firefox profiles were moved]] from their default location, to the //Home folder// | + | Note: we assume in the filters below that the [[other:thunderbird#moving_the_tb_configuration_directory_to_a_specific_directory|Thunderbird and Firefox profiles were moved]] from their default location on ''C:\'', to the //Home folder// |
| * Remove Thunderbird and Firefox lock file: ''%%*%%\parent.lock'' | * Remove Thunderbird and Firefox lock file: ''%%*%%\parent.lock'' | ||
| - | * Try to remove all the obvious cache folders: ''%%*%%\Cache\'', ''%%*%%\cache2\'' | + | * Try to remove all the obvious cache folders: ''%%*\*cache*\%%'' |
| - | * The filter rules above will remove cache folders like:\\ ''%%*%%\Firefox\Profiles\jyp_Firefox_fixe\cache2\'',\\ ''%%*%%\Thunderbird\Profiles\jyp_Thunderbird_fixe\Cache\'',\\ ''%%*%%\Thunderbird\Profiles\jyp_Thunderbird_fixe\cache2\'' | + | * The filter rules above will remove cache folders like:\\ ''%%*%%\Firefox\Profiles\jyp_Firefox_fixe\cache2\'',\\ ''%%*%%\Thunderbird\Profiles\jyp_Thunderbird_fixe\Cache\'',\\ ''%%*%%\Thunderbird\Profiles\jyp_Thunderbird_fixe\cache2\''\\ ... and many similar folders |
| + | * Remove other Thunderbird and Firefox folders with temporary files: ''%%*\storage\%%'', ''%%*\datareporting\%%'' | ||
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| ==== Suggested filters when backing up your Windows folder ==== | ==== Suggested filters when backing up your Windows folder ==== | ||
| Default Windows folder: ''C:\Users\your_login'' | Default Windows folder: ''C:\Users\your_login'' | ||
| - | * Remove WSL+Linux from backup: ''%%*\AppData\Local\Packages\Canonical*Ubuntu*\%%'' | + | * Remove [[other:win10wsl|WSL+Linux]] from backup: ''%%*\AppData\Local\Packages\Canonical*Ubuntu*\%%'' |
| + | * It's probably better to use [[other:win10wsl#restoring_a_wsl_backup|wsl export/import]] for saving/restoring a full WSL installation, or a //tar// file for saving only the Linux ''home'' directory | ||
| + | * Remember that WSL+Linux can access Windows directories using ''/mnt/some_drive/some_directory''. You can put your data files in ''some_drive:\some_directory'' and use SyncBack to save the content! | ||
| * Remove the backup of all the settings saved in AppData\Local\Packages: ''%%*\AppData\Local\Packages\%%'' | * Remove the backup of all the settings saved in AppData\Local\Packages: ''%%*\AppData\Local\Packages\%%'' | ||
| * Try to remove all the cache files: ''*cache*\''\\ This should take care of cache folders like: | * Try to remove all the cache files: ''*cache*\''\\ This should take care of cache folders like: | ||
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| * Remove misc. files: ''%%*\ntuser*%%'', ''%%*\NTUSER*%%'', ''%%*\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Current*%%'' | * Remove misc. files: ''%%*\ntuser*%%'', ''%%*\NTUSER*%%'', ''%%*\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Current*%%'' | ||
| * Remove misc. directories: ''%%*\AppData\Local\Comms\%%'', ''%%*\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\%%'' | * Remove misc. directories: ''%%*\AppData\Local\Comms\%%'', ''%%*\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\%%'' | ||
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| + | ==== The side effect of filters ==== | ||
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| + | If you use a filter to specify that something in the //Source// folder should not be backed up to the //Destination// folder, SyncBack will also ignore it in the Destination folder, and it will stay in //Destination// **forever**, unless you remove it by hand! | ||
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| + | If you have time, you may want to review the custom filters you have added, and **remove the //filtered// folders/files in Destination by hand**... | ||
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| + | **Detailed example:** | ||
| + | * you execute a backup profile, and one of the mirrored folders (in Source) is called ''datareporting''\\ => ''datareporting'' exists in both Source and Destination | ||
| + | * you add a ''%%*\datareporting\%%'' filter that will skip the ''datareporting'' folders the next times you execute the backup profile\\ => ''datareporting'' still exists in both Source and Destination | ||
| + | * The ''datareporting'' content in Source may change but will be ignored by SyncBack (that's what you want!) | ||
| + | * **The ''datareporting'' content in //Destination// will stay there and never change** (the //side effect//...) | ||
| + | * The only way to get rid of ''datareporting'' in Destination is to **remove it by hand** | ||
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other/win10_syncback.txt · Last modified: 2020/04/29 14:38 by jypeter
