Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Base => TCB Tips & Tricks => Topic started by: pioj on February 17, 2013, 08:08:21 AM
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Hi! my filetool.sh -d command currently tells me:
- Without chromium-browser.scm installed, mydata.tgz is less than 1 MB.
- Having chromium installed enlarges the file up to 4 MB. That's because of some files placed into your home directory.
In my case, I only have the bare minimum to run chromium-browser.scm under Xvesa & JWM-snapshot.
I know you guys are still dealing with these cases in many ways so I'd wish to help you too by proposing another solution.
What about having a blacklist.lst or similar that work along filetool.sh ? Similar to what modprobe does to ignore some modules, you know...
I think it's a cleaner approach that having to customize filetool.sh or to write additional scripts doing similar tasks...
BTW, Chromium files are related to 'Bloom anti-malware' stuff I don't want to mess with atm... Exclude them or just unmount chromium before every filetool.sh backup seems enough for me...
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How would that differ from /opt/.xfiletool.lst ?
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web browsers can blow out your backup by way more than a mere 4 MB if they write their caches to your home directories. As tinypoodle has already mentioned, look at .xfiletool.lst. This is exactly what that file is intended for.
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hi pioj,
there is no doubt that
/opt/.xfiletool.lst is the first tool to keep your backup-file slim & beauty...
but for programs like browsers and mail-clients i use an different approach:
for firefox (and its clones) and thunderbird i use a standarized file-set that is loaded everytime and i don't backup the "exploded, used" directory. only in thunderbird i backup the popstate.dat that logs all previous downloaded mails to prevent the download of old mails. from time to time i adjust some config files of my standard-file-set for my convience and for getting ahead in terms of development and security.
with this standard-file-set i keep my backup at tiny 1,3 mb with endless configuration files and individual scripts for almost every program and tool i need for my daily life (although some plugins take more than 1 mb)...
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Thx a lot. I thought the 'x' was related to X11 and not 'xclude' , hah...
Has anyone ever tried to patch an extension with an external file? Maybe it's a simpler solution rather than having to save your changes to a .tgz file everytime...
Oh, btw Is there a way to choose .tar for mydata instead of .tgz? I read something about that at the forums...
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Has anyone ever tried to patch an extension with an external file? Maybe it's a simpler solution rather than having to save your changes to a .tgz file everytime...
Sounds more complex in my understanding, not more simple...
And you seem to mix up backup and extensions, different formats.
Oh, btw Is there a way to choose .tar for mydata instead of .tgz? I read something about that at the forums...
A patch - unsupported - has been posted to this forum recently ;)