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IgnorePath '/etc/ld.so.cache' # "File containing an ordered list of libraries found in the directories specified in /etc/ld.so.conf, as well as those found in the trusted directories."
IgnorePath '/usr/share/info/dir'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/logrotate.status'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/upower/history-*.dat'
IgnorePath '/etc/udev/hwdb.bin' # https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/hwdb.html
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.bin' # https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/hwdb.html
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive'
IgnorePath '/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/catalog/database' # Message catalog cache
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.*.lz4' # Core dumps
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/random-seed'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/timers/stamp-*.timer' # systemd timer timestamps
IgnorePath '/var/tmp/systemd-private-*' # systemd PrivateTmp directories
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/backlight/pci-0000:00:02.0:backlight:intel_backlight'
IgnorePath '/etc/.updated'
IgnorePath '/var/.updated'
IgnorePath '/var/log/journal'
IgnorePath '/etc/.pwd.lock' # http://blog.dailystuff.nl/2011/08/the-hunt-for-etc-pwd-lock/
IgnorePath '/var/log/btmp'
IgnorePath '/var/log/btmp.*'
IgnorePath '/var/log/faillog'
IgnorePath '/var/log/lastlog'
IgnorePath '/var/log/tallylog'
IgnorePath '/var/log/wtmp'
IgnorePath '/var/log/wtmp.*'
IgnorePath '/var/spool/anacron/cron.daily' # anacron (provided by cronie)
IgnorePath '/var/spool/anacron/cron.monthly' # ditto
IgnorePath '/var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly' # ditto
IgnorePath '/var/spool/cron/vladimir'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db' #
IgnorePath '/boot'
IgnorePath '/boot/EFI/grub/grubx64.efi' # grub for EFI
IgnorePath '/boot/EFI/Boot/Bootx64.efi' # for dumb Sony firmware
IgnorePath '/boot/EFI/Boot/grubx64.efi' # for dumb Sony firmware
IgnorePath '/boot/grub' # grub's install
IgnorePath '/boot/grub/grub.cfg' # grub config
IgnorePath '/boot/initramfs-*.img'
IgnorePath '/boot/shellx64_v2.efi'
IgnorePath '/var/local/grub2efi/links'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/modules/*/modules.alias' # Modified for nvidia
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/modules/*/modules.alias.bin' # Ditto
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/modules/*/modules.dep' # Ditto
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/modules/*/modules.dep.bin' # Ditto
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/modules/*/modules.symbols' # Ditto
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/modules/*/modules.symbols.bin' # Ditto
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/modules/*/modules.builtin.bin'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/modules/*/modules.devname'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/modules/*/modules.softdep'
IgnorePath '/etc/dhcpcd.duid'
IgnorePath '/etc/dhcpcd.secret'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-*.lease'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-*.lease6'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssh/*_key' # Host private keys
IgnorePath '/etc/ssh/*_key.pub' # Host public keys
IgnorePath '/etc/resolv.conf'
IgnorePath '/etc/resolv.conf.bak'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/clock'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/private/systemd/timesync'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/private/msg.sock/*'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/account_policy.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/group_mapping.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/private/randseed.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/registry.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/share_info.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/log/samba' # Log
IgnorePath '/etc/unbound/trusted-key.key' # To recreate, run: sudo -u unbound unbound-anchor -a /etc/unbound/trusted-key.key
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/rfkill/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/NetworkManager/*'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/btrfs/scrub.status.*'
IgnorePath '/??' # Links for NTFS symlinks
IgnorePath '/etc/lvm/cache/.cache' # "The vgscan command scans all supported disk devices in the system looking for LVM physical volumes and volume groups. This builds the LVM cache in the /etc/lvm/.cache file, which maintains a listing of current LVM devices."
IgnorePath '/etc/lvm/archive/*.vg'
IgnorePath '/etc/lvm/backup/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/gio/modules/giomodule.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/gio/modules/giomodule.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled' # https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/glib-compile-schemas.html
IgnorePath '/usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/aliases' # MIME aliases
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/*.xml' # Localizations
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/generic-icons'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/globs' # File extensions
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/globs2' # Weighted file extensions?
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/icons'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/magic' # Binary magic database
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/mime.cache' # Binary
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/subclasses'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/treemagic' # Directory magic
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/types'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/version'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/XMLnamespaces'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/libtiff.so.3'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/libtiffxx.so.3'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/libtiff.so.3'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/libtiffxx.so.3'
IgnorePath '/etc/xml/catalog' # http://xmlsoft.org/catalog.html
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/ALPM_DB_VERSION'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/*/changelog'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/*/desc'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/*/files'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/*/install'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/*/mtree'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/sync/*.db' # repos
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/sync/*.db.sig' # repo sigs
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/sync/*.files' # for pacman -F
IgnorePath '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg' # keyring
IgnorePath '/var/log/pacman.log' # Log
IgnorePath '/var/lib/aurbuild'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/ca-bundle.trust.crt'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/cadir/*.0'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/cadir/*.1'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/cadir/*.pem'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/email-ca-bundle.pem'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/objsign-ca-bundle.pem'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/tls-ca-bundle.pem'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/*.0'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/*.1'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/*.pem'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/.mono/certs/Trust/ski-*.cer'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/.mono/certs/Trust/tbp-*.cer'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/.mono/new-certs/Trust/????????.0'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/graphviz/config6' # "This file was generated by "dot -c" at time of install."
IgnorePath '/var/lib/docker/*'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/libdruntime-ldc*.so.*'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/libphobos2*.so.*'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/python3.6/__pycache__/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/python3.6/*/__pycache__/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/gcc-*/python/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/gdb/python/gdb/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/nautilus-python/extensions/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/*.html'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/ghc-*/package.conf.d/*.conf'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/ghc-*/package.conf.d/package.cache'
IgnorePath '/etc/texmf/ls-R' # "filename database for kpathsea"
IgnorePath '/etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg' # "The updmap.cfg in the TEXMFDIST tree is generated by tlmgr by concatenating updmap-hdr.cfg with the updmap.cfg files in this tree."
IgnorePath '/etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/texmf/ls-R'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/*.map'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/ls-R'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/luatex-cache/context/*.lua' #
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/luatex-cache/context/*.luc' #
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/web2c/*.fmt' #
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/web2c/*.log' #
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafont/mf.base' #
IgnorePath '/var/games'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/tlp/rfkill-saved'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/hwmon/it87/it87.ko'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/dkms/it87/*'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/alsa/asound.state'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat'
IgnorePath '/opt/android-sdk/platforms' # Managed by 'android'
IgnorePath '/opt/android-sdk/tools/lib' # ditto
IgnorePath '/opt/android-sdk/build-tools' # ditto
IgnorePath '/opt/android-sdk/extras/android/m2repository' # ditto
IgnorePath '/usr/share/fonts/*/fonts.dir'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/fonts/*/fonts.scale'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/fonts/.uuid'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/fonts/*/.uuid'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/icons/*/icon-theme.cache'
IgnorePath '/var/tmp/kdecache-*/icon-cache.kcache'
IgnorePath '/var/tmp/kdecache-vladimir'
IgnorePath '/var/log/Xorg.*.log'
IgnorePath '/var/log/Xorg.*.log.old'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/dict/words'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/machines'
IgnorePath '/etc/brlapi.key'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/snapshot'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/*/master-key.aes'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/*/monitor.sock'
IgnorePath '/var/log/libvirt' # Logs
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/*.status'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/*.macs'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/images' # Disks
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/*.save' # Saved states
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/*.fd' # EFI vars
IgnorePath '/boot/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/.updated'
IgnorePath '/etc/.pwd.lock'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/ld.so.cache'
IgnorePath '/etc/machine-id'
IgnorePath '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/lvm/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/passwd-'
IgnorePath '/etc/shadow-'
IgnorePath '/etc/group-'
IgnorePath '/etc/gshadow-'
IgnorePath '/etc/pki/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/light*'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_*'
IgnorePath '/etc/resolv.conf'
IgnorePath '/lost+found'
IgnorePath '/usr/bin/*'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/*'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/*'
IgnorePath '/var/*'
IgnorePath '*.bak'
IgnorePath '*.sbak'
IgnorePath '*.pacnew'
IgnorePath '*.pacsave'
IgnorePath '/srv/http/*'
IgnorePath '/usr/local/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/letsencrypt/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/grub.d/*'
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Bad3r commented Jul 29, 2021

Hi,
Thanks for sharing, I found this file as a great starting point.
I have noticed some duplicate entries and some options that overwrites others.
Here is what I found in case you wanted to remove them

# Doublicates (exists in 2 places)
IgnorePath '/etc/.updated'
IgnorePath '/etc/.pwd.lock'
IgnorePath '/etc/ld.so.cache'
IgnorePath '/etc/resolv.conf'
IgnorePath '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg' # keyring

IgnorePath '/boot/*'
# Overwrites
IgnorePath '/boot'
IgnorePath '/boot/EFI/grub/grubx64.efi' # grub for EFI
IgnorePath '/boot/EFI/Boot/Bootx64.efi' # for dumb Sony firmware
IgnorePath '/boot/EFI/Boot/grubx64.efi' # for dumb Sony firmware
IgnorePath '/boot/grub' # grub's install
IgnorePath '/boot/grub/grub.cfg' # grub config
IgnorePath '/boot/initramfs-*.img'
IgnorePath '/boot/shellx64_v2.efi'

IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/*'
# Overwrites
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/*.0'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/*.1'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/*.pem'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts'

IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/*'
# Overwrites
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/ca-bundle.trust.crt'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/cadir/*.0'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/cadir/*.1'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/cadir/*.pem'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/email-ca-bundle.pem'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/objsign-ca-bundle.pem'
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/tls-ca-bundle.pem'

IgnorePath '/usr/lib/*'
# Overwrites
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.bin' # https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/hwdb.html
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/libtiff.so.3'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/libtiffxx.so.3'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/graphviz/config6' # "This file was generated by "dot -c" at time of install."
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/ghc-*/package.conf.d/*.conf'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib/ghc-*/package.conf.d/package.cache'

# Consider replacing with "IgnorePath '/usr/lib/*'"
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/gio/modules/giomodule.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/libtiff.so.3'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/libtiffxx.so.3'

IgnorePath '/usr/share/*'
# Overwrites
IgnorePath '/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/aliases' # MIME aliases
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/*.xml' # Localizations
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/generic-icons'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/globs' # File extensions
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/globs2' # Weighted file extensions?
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/icons'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/magic' # Binary magic database
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/mime.cache' # Binary
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/subclasses'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/treemagic' # Directory magic
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/types'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/version'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/mime/XMLnamespaces'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/info/dir'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/*'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/icons/*'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled' # https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/glib-compile-schemas.html
IgnorePath '/usr/share/.mono/certs/Trust/ski-*.cer'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/.mono/certs/Trust/tbp-*.cer'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/.mono/new-certs/Trust/????????.0'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/gcc-*/python/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/gdb/python/gdb/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/nautilus-python/extensions/*.pyc'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/*.html'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/texmf/ls-R'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/fonts/*/fonts.dir'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/fonts/*/fonts.scale'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/fonts/.uuid'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/fonts/*/.uuid'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/icons/*/icon-theme.cache'

IngorePath '/var/*'
# Overwrites
IgnorePath '/var/lib/logrotate.status'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/upower/history-*.dat'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/catalog/database' # Message catalog cache
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.*.lz4' # Core dumps
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/random-seed'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/timers/stamp-*.timer' # systemd timer timestamps
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/backlight/pci-0000:00:02.0:backlight:intel_backlight'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-*.lease'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-*.lease6'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/clock'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/private/systemd/timesync'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/private/msg.sock/*'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/account_policy.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/group_mapping.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/private/randseed.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/registry.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/samba/share_info.tdb' # Database
IgnorePath '/var/lib/systemd/rfkill/*'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/NetworkManager/*'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/btrfs/scrub.status.*'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/ALPM_DB_VERSION'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/*/changelog'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/*/desc'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/*/files'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/*/install'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/local/*/mtree'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/sync/*.db' # repos
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/sync/*.db.sig' # repo sigs
IgnorePath '/var/lib/pacman/sync/*.files' # for pacman -F
IgnorePath '/var/lib/aurbuild'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/docker/*'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/*.map'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/ls-R'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/luatex-cache/context/*.lua' #
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/luatex-cache/context/*.luc' #
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/web2c/*.fmt' #
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/web2c/*.log' #
IgnorePath '/var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafont/mf.base' #
IgnorePath '/var/lib/tlp/rfkill-saved'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/dkms/it87/*'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/alsa/asound.state'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/machines'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/snapshot'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/*/master-key.aes'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/*/monitor.sock'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/*.status'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/*.macs'
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/images' # Disks
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/*.save' # Saved states
IgnorePath '/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/*.fd' # EFI vars
IgnorePath '/var/log/samba' # Log
IgnorePath '/var/log/journal'
IgnorePath '/var/log/btmp'
IgnorePath '/var/log/btmp.*'
IgnorePath '/var/log/faillog'
IgnorePath '/var/log/lastlog'
IgnorePath '/var/log/tallylog'
IgnorePath '/var/log/wtmp'
IgnorePath '/var/log/wtmp.*'
IgnorePath '/var/log/pacman.log' # Log
IgnorePath '/var/log/Xorg.*.log'
IgnorePath '/var/log/Xorg.*.log.old'
IgnorePath '/var/log/libvirt' # Logs
IgnorePath '/var/spool/anacron/cron.daily' # anacron (provided by cronie)
IgnorePath '/var/spool/anacron/cron.monthly' 
IgnorePath '/var/spool/anacron/cron.weekly'
IgnorePath '/var/.updated'
IgnorePath '/var/local/grub2efi/links'
IgnorePath '/var/games'

IgnorePath '/usr/local/*'
#Overwrites
IgnorePath '/usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache'

Here is my modified files based on the comments above

IgnorePath '/etc/ld.so.cache' # "File containing an ordered list of libraries found in the directories specified in /etc/ld.so.conf, as well as those found in the trusted directories."
IgnorePath '/etc/udev/hwdb.bin' # https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/hwdb.html
IgnorePath '/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml'
IgnorePath '/etc/.updated'
IgnorePath '/etc/.pwd.lock' # http://blog.dailystuff.nl/2011/08/the-hunt-for-etc-pwd-lock/
IgnorePath '/etc/dhcpcd.duid'
IgnorePath '/etc/dhcpcd.secret'
IgnorePath '/etc/ssh/*_key' # Host private keys
IgnorePath '/etc/ssh/*_key.pub' # Host public keys
IgnorePath '/etc/ssh/ssh_host_*'
IgnorePath '/etc/resolv.conf'
IgnorePath '/etc/resolv.conf.bak'
IgnorePath '/etc/unbound/trusted-key.key' # To recreate, run: sudo -u unbound unbound-anchor -a /etc/unbound/trusted-key.key
IgnorePath '/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/lvm/cache/.cache' # "The vgscan command scans all supported disk devices in the system looking for LVM physical volumes and volume groups. This builds the LVM cache in the /etc/lvm/.cache file, which maintains a listing of current LVM devices."
IgnorePath '/etc/machine-id'
IgnorePath '/etc/lvm/archive/*.vg'
IgnorePath '/etc/lvm/backup/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders'
IgnorePath '/etc/xml/catalog' # http://xmlsoft.org/catalog.html
IgnorePath '/etc/ca-certificates/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/*' # keyring
IgnorePath '/etc/ssl/certs/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/texmf/ls-R' # "filename database for kpathsea"
IgnorePath '/etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg' # "The updmap.cfg in the TEXMFDIST tree is generated by tlmgr by concatenating updmap-hdr.cfg with the updmap.cfg files in this tree."
IgnorePath '/etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf'
IgnorePath '/etc/brlapi.key'
IgnorePath '/etc/lvm/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/passwd-'
IgnorePath '/etc/shadow-'
IgnorePath '/etc/group-'
IgnorePath '/etc/gshadow-'
IgnorePath '/etc/pki/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/light*'
IgnorePath '/etc/letsencrypt/*'
IgnorePath '/etc/grub.d/*'

IgnorePath '/var/*'
IgnorePath '/var/tmp/*'


IgnorePath '/usr/lib/*'
IgnorePath '/usr/lib32/*'
IgnorePath '/usr/share/*'
IgnorePath '/usr/local/*'


IgnorePath '/tmp/*'

IgnorePath '/boot/*'

IgnorePath '/??' # Links for NTFS symlinks

IgnorePath '/opt/android-sdk/platforms' # Managed by 'android'
IgnorePath '/opt/android-sdk/tools/lib'
IgnorePath '/opt/android-sdk/build-tools'
IgnorePath '/opt/android-sdk/extras/android/m2repository'

IgnorePath '/lost+found'

IgnorePath '*.bak'
IgnorePath '*.sbak'
IgnorePath '*.pacnew'
IgnorePath '*.pacsave'

IgnorePath '/srv/http/*'

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