On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 17:35:23 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:

> I was somewhat stunned at the number and volume of files transferred,
> 2.8 GB, 2.0 of them .cache files.
>
Yep, they are bulky, and not worth backing up since in general they're
temporary files and contain nothing that doesn't already exist elsewhere.

BTW, speaking of backups: my house server gets automatically backed up by
a cron job that runs at 03:00 every dat. Originally this made a
compressed .tgz (gzipped tar archive) file each day. About 3-4 years back
this was taking 3.5 hours to run each night: not a problem since the
system was never doing anything else at the time,  but I was already
planning to scan in my CD collection, which ended up at 145GB, so I
switched over to using rsnapshot to make the same backup: this now takes
9 minutes  plus a weekly run of about 10 minutes.

For those who don't know, rsnapshot is a backup subsystem that manages
the number of daily and weekly backups that are kept. The daily run backs
up changes made during the previous 24 hours, while the weekly run
concatenates the last week's daily backups into a single weekly backup.

> Where does the chromium browser store login credentials? A Web search
> didn't turn up any ready answers for the case of the Pi. It appears that
> Mac and Windows put them in system directories.
>
Pass - I don't and won't use the Chromium Browser or the Google Search
engine for that matter, because I want to minimise the amount of my data
that is stolen and monetised by Google as possible. AFAICT the *only*
Google code I use is Google Pro, and thats only because there is not non-
Google equivalent available - and don't forget that it was NOT developed
by them - they bought it in during the first Internet boom.


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