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: Hugh Sontag <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:58:54 -0600
Larry's right, and there's more.
Apple's OS is customer-focused, not programmer-focused. Options for
including/excluding files, folders, regular expressions.
Is the current user interface any sort of a clue? There is basically
an on/off button. Turn it on and *everything* is backed up, whether
it needs it or not. One sop to "configurability" in the form of an
exclusion list. You must not have drunk the Kool-Aid.
File bugs if you feel like it, but don't expect to see them
implemented. Time Machine is *intended* to be simple, and adding
features defeats that intention.
Best Regards,
Hugh Sontag
It's almost certain they won't add significant functionality during
10.5's lifetime. First, they'll want to consider all their options
and decide which they think is best. "They" refers to what is
effectively a committee, so there you go. Second, new features
require a more resources for implementation and testing. Third, if
they do it for Leopard it's one less new feature they can use to
sell Leopard+1.
File the request, though, or you won't see it until 10.7. ;-)
Larry
Regards,
David Alger
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On Nov 15, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Daniel Hazelbaker wrote:
On Nov 15, 2007, at 2:08 PM, John Lunt 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.
[snip]
Am I missing something here, or should I just file a bug against this?
John.
I would personally love to see TM have MUCH more options to which
files it includes or does not include, I just haven't gotten
around to filing a bug report yet. Personally I would love to see
full file globbing of what to exclude AND include (There are some
people I would prefer to backup just their /Users folder yet
exclude /Users/*/Music. regexp would be even better because we
could better handle things).
So yes, I would file a bug report. Hopefully I'll get one filed
in the next few days as well.
My 2 cents.
Daniel
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