Safe to delete .AppleDouble and .AppleDB files on Vault?

[ryanasimov]

OS X litters my Duo with hundreds of hidden .AppleDouble and .AppleDB files, which are duly backed up to ReadyNAS Vault. Is it safe to delete these from my Vault, or will they just reappear?

Also, are they modified regularly by OS X and subject to versioning and archiving by Vault? I'm just trying to make my Vault backup as streamlined as possible without extraneous files.

[ryanasimov]

I posted this question over a year ago and never got a reply from anyone, official or otherwise. Is the answer unknown or has the question been ignored?

[StephenB]

Well, if you want to preserve the AFP file attributes you need to keep them. If you don't care about that, you can delete them.

[ryanasimov]

Thanks for the info; I do care about the attributes so I'll leave them alone.