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Everyone cares about [[backups]]. But creating backups of backups of backups, or old archaic files, or temporary downloads, or massive files that are available forever on the Internet such as free software tarballs, iso files etc. is foolish. This is all to say that you need to delete files before you backup! | Everyone cares about [[backups]]. But creating backups of backups of backups, or old archaic files, or temporary downloads, or massive files that are available forever on the Internet such as free software tarballs, iso files etc. is foolish. This is all to say that you need to delete files before you backup! | ||
=== Get your Ducks in a row === | |||
Refer to [[One-liners#Find_big_files_or_directories]] for the 'ducks' command. Or, see the top answer at this StackExchange | |||
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/381391/find-biggest-files-and-delete-automatically | https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/381391/find-biggest-files-and-delete-automatically | ||