On Apr 28, 2016, at 3:35 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good, so it should indeed be possible to come up with a script or the like
> that sets up Time Machine to do only an "economic" kind of backing up of
> ${prefix}. Supposing that all ports that do use site-specific configuration
> files store those files under etc/ .
> I'll try to find a moment to figure out to what extent keeping an additional
> list of which ports are active is required.
>
> I just think of a complication though. The port command is installed in bin/
> together with a few others, and there are probably libraries "base" uses that
> live in lib/ . It's probably possible to add those to Time Machine's filter
> list but it does make the idea a bit less appealing.
IIRC there is some metadata that you can set to exclude a file from backup (a
little googling says it's probably
com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem) - it might be interesting to
patch base to set this (along with possibly adding some sort of 'restore'
action which will do the deactivate/reactivate dance).
--
Daniel J. Luke
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