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I think this will copy your 9gb Mozilla cache directory as well? Still one liners like this is all you need lol

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My mozilla cache would be under ~/.mozilla/firefox. Is the nightly version moving to ~/.config?

Reason I say would be is that I disable disk cache among other things performed by Arkenfox [1]

[1] - https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

What does config have to do with the one liner?

Prevents some data from ending up in ~/.mozilla. We dont sync what does not exist.

My guy, the one liner as written copies all dot files. Mozilla included

My guy, the one liner as written copies all dot files. Mozilla included

Exactly why I apply Sun Tzu methodology.

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Yes, Firefox 147 will respect XDG dirs.

Any sufficiently-advanced automated rsync would have a filter for caches.

Except only ssh is filtered. Just commenting on what I see, not what should be

For sure, you need to exclude whatever "dotfiles" you don't want copied (or explicitly copy the ones you want), particularly caches and other giant hidden things.

What I mean is an .rsync-filter with ‘H Cache/‘ or some lines of patterns to exclude. You’ll need to run with -F every time. On the sending side, a recent tar will accept —-exclude-caches if you can be diligent about creating CACHEDIR.TAG.

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