Backup

[Luca Ferrari]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Errol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il> wrote:
> Hi Jerry
> That is my plan but first I have to separate my data from my /home partition
> which led to the question I asked. I'm still not sure I have a complete
> answer but as I said Amaury's suggestion (if it works) could provide the
> solution.

I suspect at this stage you have to dig data manually, that is to
write down patterns to include or exclude. Excluding the .* files and
dirs sounds nice, but could still provide you some configuration
spread by some nasty program.
As other pointed out, you only know what "data" means to you. For
instance web.xml is data or configuration? Of course, in order to ease
backups, you need a clear separation between data and configuration,
but until that you have to dig manually.

Luca