On Oct 1, 2014, at 6:10 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > For a while now I've been noticing that TimeMachine makes huge backups > (hundreds of Mb) that do not seem to correspond to the total size of the > files changed during the backup interval (6h for me). > I've set to exclude most of /opt/local/var/macports (the large guys in > there), but there are the symlinks to the work directories in > /opt/local/var/macports/build that source builds leave behind as long as the > port hasn't been cleaned. > > Is it possible that TimeMachine (on OS X 10.6.8) not only backs up those > symlinks but also their destination (OS X being rather adamant about > "normalising" symlinks in most circumstances)? Browsing through the TM > interface it seems indeed as if I end up in a (forbidden) backup of the work > directory when I double-click the symlink in a port directory backup, but it > is near impossible to know whether that's not simply a view on the current > directory, not a backup. > > Addendum: I built qt4-mac from source tonight, after creating a local version > of the port directory. Sure enough this morning TM wanted to backup nearly > 6Gb ... > > Any thoughts?
I have not examined my time machine backups yet. But you can edit a setting in macports.conf to tell it not to create the work symlink. You could try that, and see if subsequent backups are smaller. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
