Re: Time machine backing up temporary binary files.
Re: Time machine backing up temporary binary files.
- Subject: Re: Time machine backing up temporary binary files.
- From: "Mark Wagner" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:03:12 -0800
On 11/15/07, John Lunt <email@hidden> wrote:
> I've just realized that Time Machine (TM) seems to be backing up the
> temporary binary files from my Xcode projects. I'm particularly
> thinking about the .o files, but I'm sure there are others. If checked
> for a simple "Hello World" program that main.o appears in my TM backup.
>
> It seems to me that the compiler generated temporaries take up 2 to 10
> times the space of the source, and are completely regenerated every
> time I do a clean build. This is going to fill up my backup drive
> quite fast.
>
> - excluding the files manually doesn't seem feasible. I've got dozens
> of projects each creating .o files in several sub-directories
> - excluding my whole Xcode project seems like a bad idea, as I
> actively want my source to be backed up.
> - Apple have thought about the issue in general (e.g. as a developer I
> can call CSBackupSetItemExcluded(.)from my own app) but as far as I
> can tell, there is no option in Xcode to stop .o files from being
> archived automatically.
I don't have Time Machine, but on my home computer, which uses a
similar backup system, I use Subversion to manage my source code. The
project directories are excluded from backup, but the Subversion
repository gets backed up on a regular basis.
--
Mark Wagner
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