Thanks, I'll give the link a read. I was more asking about the syntax 
than the contents.... It doesn't matter what's in there, if the syntax 
isn't correct!

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Juergen Harms wrote:
> Have a look at
> http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/Common_backup_excludes
> 
> I find the linux excludes somewhat spartiate - different utilities place 
> backkup and temporary files at well hidden places. I just started 
> getting things together, my intial setup for my home directory 
> illustrates that there may be need for additional items to add to the 
> examples quoted above - the kde Trash file is a good example. And I have 
> not yet started hunting for temporary files produced by various Unix 
> utilities.
> 
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
>    harms => [
>       '/tmp',
>       '/.local/share/Trash',
>       '*~', '#*#'
>    ]
> };
> 
> 
> For windows, I do not know enough to point out useless stuff. My initial 
> exclude files are simply dictated by what I find in the error log - 
> files that backuppc could not access, because Skype, Thunderbird etc. 
> are using them - I like to have 0 errors unless backup really requires 
> attention. Starting from the example in the URL quoted above and adding 
> files I found in the error log, I added quite some Skype files, and had 
> to deal with the fact the different Mozilla version place the same kind 
> of file at /Application Data and at /Local Settings/Application Data - I 
> simple added pairs of items to catch both.
> 
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