Re: how to exclude custom shared precompiled headers folder from Time Machine backups?
Re: how to exclude custom shared precompiled headers folder from Time Machine backups?
- Subject: Re: how to exclude custom shared precompiled headers folder from Time Machine backups?
- From: Jens Miltner <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:08:46 +0200
Am 29.03.2010 um 16:55 schrieb Ken Thomases:
> On Mar 29, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Jens Miltner wrote:
>
>> is there a supported way of automatically adding them (e.g. using a shell script) to the list of excluded or skipped folders? I assume I can change the Time Machine prefs file, but I'd just like to check whether there is a supported mechanism of adding exclude/skip folders?
>
> First, changing the Time Machine preferences file is a really bad idea.
That's why I asked :)
> Second, is there a reason you can't add the folder to the Time Machine exclusions manually?
Yes, I could, but the reason we have the custom shared prec. headers redirection is that we frequently need to grab historic versions and build them, so it's easy to forget adding a folder that I'm working on for a few days, which will clutter my backup unnecessarily...
>
> Lastly, if you want to automate this, you can use the CSBackupSetItemExcluded() function. To do this from a shell script, you'd have to write a command-line tool around that API.
Great, that was what I was looking for... guess I should have found this myself while searching the documentation :-[
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