diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ad70318..2e14dee 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ lib-cov
 *.pid
 *.gz
 *.swp
+*.rdb
 
 pids
 logs
diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae620bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.npmignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*~
+*.rdb
+redis.conf