Is it safe to drop part of mozilla profile from the backup?
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I have the problem, that my backup is flooded by mozilla's firefox' profiles. I have only one user with multiple profiles.
The thing is that firefox saves various data in sqlite files etc that just are updated.
I use a rsnapshot-based backup approach: if a file has not changed it is hard-linked to the last version. So no storage is consumed.
If the file on the other hand has changed it needs to be completely written to the backup.
This causes the backup to increase rapidly although this is not always important data but caches etc.
So I intend to exclude the temporary cached and other data from the backup.
Now I saw that the biggest block in the firefox profile folder that seems to have regular updates is the storage/default folder. Searching the internet I found this link. As far as I understand this, I can safely drop the files in the storage/default and storage/temporary folders in the backup. Firefox will recreate the content when I visit the pages again.
Is this correct? What sort of information is saved there (except for caches and temporary data)?
backup firefox-profile
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I have the problem, that my backup is flooded by mozilla's firefox' profiles. I have only one user with multiple profiles.
The thing is that firefox saves various data in sqlite files etc that just are updated.
I use a rsnapshot-based backup approach: if a file has not changed it is hard-linked to the last version. So no storage is consumed.
If the file on the other hand has changed it needs to be completely written to the backup.
This causes the backup to increase rapidly although this is not always important data but caches etc.
So I intend to exclude the temporary cached and other data from the backup.
Now I saw that the biggest block in the firefox profile folder that seems to have regular updates is the storage/default folder. Searching the internet I found this link. As far as I understand this, I can safely drop the files in the storage/default and storage/temporary folders in the backup. Firefox will recreate the content when I visit the pages again.
Is this correct? What sort of information is saved there (except for caches and temporary data)?
backup firefox-profile
edited Nov 22 at 13:36
harrymc
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asked Nov 22 at 13:22
Christian Wolf
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I have the problem, that my backup is flooded by mozilla's firefox' profiles. I have only one user with multiple profiles.
The thing is that firefox saves various data in sqlite files etc that just are updated.
I use a rsnapshot-based backup approach: if a file has not changed it is hard-linked to the last version. So no storage is consumed.
If the file on the other hand has changed it needs to be completely written to the backup.
This causes the backup to increase rapidly although this is not always important data but caches etc.
So I intend to exclude the temporary cached and other data from the backup.
Now I saw that the biggest block in the firefox profile folder that seems to have regular updates is the storage/default folder. Searching the internet I found this link. As far as I understand this, I can safely drop the files in the storage/default and storage/temporary folders in the backup. Firefox will recreate the content when I visit the pages again.
Is this correct? What sort of information is saved there (except for caches and temporary data)?
backup firefox-profile
edited Nov 22 at 13:36
harrymc
249k10257550
asked Nov 22 at 13:22
Christian Wolf
1668
I have the problem, that my backup is flooded by mozilla's firefox' profiles. I have only one user with multiple profiles.
The thing is that firefox saves various data in sqlite files etc that just are updated.
I use a rsnapshot-based backup approach: if a file has not changed it is hard-linked to the last version. So no storage is consumed.
If the file on the other hand has changed it needs to be completely written to the backup.
This causes the backup to increase rapidly although this is not always important data but caches etc.
So I intend to exclude the temporary cached and other data from the backup.
Now I saw that the biggest block in the firefox profile folder that seems to have regular updates is the storage/default folder. Searching the internet I found this link. As far as I understand this, I can safely drop the files in the storage/default and storage/temporary folders in the backup. Firefox will recreate the content when I visit the pages again.
Is this correct? What sort of information is saved there (except for caches and temporary data)?
backup firefox-profile
backup firefox-profile
edited Nov 22 at 13:36
harrymc
249k10257550
asked Nov 22 at 13:22
Christian Wolf
1668
edited Nov 22 at 13:36
harrymc
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asked Nov 22 at 13:22
Christian Wolf
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edited Nov 22 at 13:36
harrymc
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edited Nov 22 at 13:36
harrymc
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According to the Mozilla article
Browser storage limits and eviction criteria:
<profile>/storage/temporary— temporary data storage repository
<profile>/storage/default— default data storage repository
The folder storage/default is where applications and webpages store their data,
so losing it will mean that everything would need to be re-entered.
/storage/temporary seems to contain cookies and temporary stuff.
Losing it may cause some problems, but less than storage/default.
answered Nov 22 at 13:59
harrymc
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What sort of data is stored there? My understanding is that webpages are stored on servers and delivered to the visitors not vice versa ;-). All I can think of that might be saved by web pages are cookies. These can be regenerated in case of huge data loss. I found this article but I do not understand the implications of it.
– Christian Wolf
Nov 25 at 19:55
Mostly data used by add-ons and webpages. Cookies is one of them, but also sign-on credentials, add-on settings and more. I wouldn't advice abandoning/storage/default, but losing/storage/temporarymight be supportable.
– harrymc
Nov 25 at 20:00
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1 Answer
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up vote
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According to the Mozilla article
Browser storage limits and eviction criteria:
<profile>/storage/temporary— temporary data storage repository
<profile>/storage/default— default data storage repository
The folder storage/default is where applications and webpages store their data,
so losing it will mean that everything would need to be re-entered.
/storage/temporary seems to contain cookies and temporary stuff.
Losing it may cause some problems, but less than storage/default.
answered Nov 22 at 13:59
harrymc
249k10257550
What sort of data is stored there? My understanding is that webpages are stored on servers and delivered to the visitors not vice versa ;-). All I can think of that might be saved by web pages are cookies. These can be regenerated in case of huge data loss. I found this article but I do not understand the implications of it.
– Christian Wolf
Nov 25 at 19:55
Mostly data used by add-ons and webpages. Cookies is one of them, but also sign-on credentials, add-on settings and more. I wouldn't advice abandoning/storage/default, but losing/storage/temporarymight be supportable.
– harrymc
Nov 25 at 20:00
add a comment |
up vote
0
down vote
According to the Mozilla article
Browser storage limits and eviction criteria:
<profile>/storage/temporary— temporary data storage repository
<profile>/storage/default— default data storage repository
The folder storage/default is where applications and webpages store their data,
so losing it will mean that everything would need to be re-entered.
/storage/temporary seems to contain cookies and temporary stuff.
Losing it may cause some problems, but less than storage/default.
answered Nov 22 at 13:59
harrymc
249k10257550
What sort of data is stored there? My understanding is that webpages are stored on servers and delivered to the visitors not vice versa ;-). All I can think of that might be saved by web pages are cookies. These can be regenerated in case of huge data loss. I found this article but I do not understand the implications of it.
– Christian Wolf
Nov 25 at 19:55
Mostly data used by add-ons and webpages. Cookies is one of them, but also sign-on credentials, add-on settings and more. I wouldn't advice abandoning/storage/default, but losing/storage/temporarymight be supportable.
– harrymc
Nov 25 at 20:00
add a comment |
up vote
0
down vote
up vote
0
down vote
According to the Mozilla article
Browser storage limits and eviction criteria:
<profile>/storage/temporary— temporary data storage repository
<profile>/storage/default— default data storage repository
The folder storage/default is where applications and webpages store their data,
so losing it will mean that everything would need to be re-entered.
/storage/temporary seems to contain cookies and temporary stuff.
Losing it may cause some problems, but less than storage/default.
answered Nov 22 at 13:59
harrymc
249k10257550
According to the Mozilla article
Browser storage limits and eviction criteria:
<profile>/storage/temporary— temporary data storage repository
<profile>/storage/default— default data storage repository
The folder storage/default is where applications and webpages store their data,
so losing it will mean that everything would need to be re-entered.
/storage/temporary seems to contain cookies and temporary stuff.
Losing it may cause some problems, but less than storage/default.
answered Nov 22 at 13:59
harrymc
249k10257550
answered Nov 22 at 13:59
harrymc
249k10257550
answered Nov 22 at 13:59
harrymc
249k10257550
answered Nov 22 at 13:59
harrymc
249k10257550
249k10257550
What sort of data is stored there? My understanding is that webpages are stored on servers and delivered to the visitors not vice versa ;-). All I can think of that might be saved by web pages are cookies. These can be regenerated in case of huge data loss. I found this article but I do not understand the implications of it.
– Christian Wolf
Nov 25 at 19:55
Mostly data used by add-ons and webpages. Cookies is one of them, but also sign-on credentials, add-on settings and more. I wouldn't advice abandoning/storage/default, but losing/storage/temporarymight be supportable.
– harrymc
Nov 25 at 20:00
add a comment |
What sort of data is stored there? My understanding is that webpages are stored on servers and delivered to the visitors not vice versa ;-). All I can think of that might be saved by web pages are cookies. These can be regenerated in case of huge data loss. I found this article but I do not understand the implications of it.
– Christian Wolf
Nov 25 at 19:55
Mostly data used by add-ons and webpages. Cookies is one of them, but also sign-on credentials, add-on settings and more. I wouldn't advice abandoning/storage/default, but losing/storage/temporarymight be supportable.
– harrymc
Nov 25 at 20:00
What sort of data is stored there? My understanding is that webpages are stored on servers and delivered to the visitors not vice versa ;-). All I can think of that might be saved by web pages are cookies. These can be regenerated in case of huge data loss. I found this article but I do not understand the implications of it.
– Christian Wolf
Nov 25 at 19:55
What sort of data is stored there? My understanding is that webpages are stored on servers and delivered to the visitors not vice versa ;-). All I can think of that might be saved by web pages are cookies. These can be regenerated in case of huge data loss. I found this article but I do not understand the implications of it.
– Christian Wolf
Nov 25 at 19:55
Mostly data used by add-ons and webpages. Cookies is one of them, but also sign-on credentials, add-on settings and more. I wouldn't advice abandoning
/storage/default, but losing /storage/temporary might be supportable.– harrymc
Nov 25 at 20:00
Mostly data used by add-ons and webpages. Cookies is one of them, but also sign-on credentials, add-on settings and more. I wouldn't advice abandoning
/storage/default, but losing /storage/temporary might be supportable.– harrymc
Nov 25 at 20:00
add a comment |
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