On 2013/11/25, at 1:29 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is there an easy way to determine which files are excluded from a time >> machine backup? >> >> The backup itself does have a plist containing the standard excludes, and >> the fixed-path excludes. But I'm concerned about finding files tagged from >> "tmutil addexclusion". Those are not listed in the backup, and I can't >> figure out an easy way to find them (they get an extended attribute, and I'm >> not sure how to search for those.) > > The comments on this Hint include a command for searching in > Spotlight: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130401060050864
Thank you. And ... this worries me: > So the moral of the story is, never disable Spotlight on a volume you want to > backup with Time Machine. It will prevent the tmutil addexclusion command > from working, but more importantly, it will prevent Time Machine from making > a complete backup of that volume (perhaps I should submit a separate hint > about this second part since it's pretty important!). Has anyone else run into this? I've also got spotlight disabled on things that I don't want searched, or to get around "App store is smarter than you, that file is already downloaded if it's in spotlight so you clearly don't want it again". (Goes to re-enable spotlight on everything, to see if the time machine backup grows...) (How do you force time machine to do a deep scan?) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
