OS X :: Time Machine - Include Instead Of Exclude?
Aug 25, 2008reversing the way Time Machine lets you select the items you wanna back up?
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OS X :: How To Exclude From Time Machine
Dec 11, 2007I just set up Time Machine, and in order to make my backups efficient, I'm trying to think what kind of stuff to exclude. I want a full, working backup, so that if I needed to I could have a complete, bootable restore in less than an hour. With that in mind, here's what I excluded so far:
1) My 2nd external hard drive. It's filled with videos and wouldn't fit anyway. I figure if that drive goes down I'll recover what I can from it and re-rip the rest.
2) My downloads folder. I just download so much crap here that I usually throw away instantly or else move. Plus the downloads folder usually has 2 copies of everything: compressed and uncompressed. Even worse, if the download is a .tar.gz, it has 3 copies of the file.
3) My VMWare images folder. Time machine will back this sucker up every hour that I'm using one of the virtual machines (due to the fact that the guest OS is storing virtual memory in the image file), which would completely kill my ability to go "back in time" since it would fill up my drive very quickly.
4) Anything that's already version controlled elsewhere. I have all my code in a subversion repository on another server, so I don't see a point in backing that up. The backup would just be cluttered anyway.
Applications :: Can't Exclude Bootcamp From Time Machine
Dec 29, 2010I just set up my external HDD today for use with Time Machine, thing is, I only have about 14GB of files on my Mac partition in my Macbook Pro, and about 53GB on a Bootcamp partition.
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Aug 2, 2008What all gets excluded from a Time Machine backup when you specify 'Exclude All System Files' when selecting to exclude the 'System' folder?? Does this include all of the invisible unix folders? I don't see much reason to back that up since I can always reinstall from CD.
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Mar 5, 2012I excluded folders in options in the Time Machine system preferences and told me that the calculated backup is about 30 GB. Nevertheless, when the time machine starts is counts about 300GB. Therefore it is not excluding the marked folders.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: What Directories Should Exclude From Time Machine Backup
Jun 18, 2012It shows an example of excluding /system and /applications In the online documentation for time machine. I am also running Parallels, but am not using it much at the moment. Perhaps I should exclude Parallels, also
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Time machine, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X Yosemite :: Can't Select Files To Exclude In Time Machine
Dec 4, 2014I have recently upgraded to 10.10 (fresh install and only migrated network settings and documents). I was setting up my Time Machine and choosing which folders to exclude from the backup when suddenly when I clicked on the plus button to add another directory the finder window shows all the folders as greyed out and unable to be selected. This applies to ALL files on the hard drive. Screen shot attached. I have performed a repair permissions and still a problem. Also performed a repair on the disk to and no change. Needless to say I have performed a reboot as well.Â
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iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
MacBook :: Do Time Machine Backup When HD Is On List Of Items To Exclude?
Mar 11, 2012For some reason, my Macintosh HD has ended up on my list of items to exclude from backup (in the Options section of Time Machine preferences). I can't do the recommended thing of highlighting the HD and pressing the minus sign, because my HD is grayed out on the Exclude list and unable to be highlighted.
Info:Macbook, White, 2.4Ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X :: Won't Include An Airdisk As A Part Of Time Machine Backup
Jun 9, 2010I have been using my airdisk as a method to share files. I was sharing them using a sharepoint but it required that I keep that mac on.
All seems to be fine using the airdisk (I share it over the LAN) but today I realized none of those files are getting backed up by time machine. My time machine backup is still hooked up directly to my main mac.
OSX 10.6.3
Airdisk shared via AE first edition (non-dual band)
OS X Mountain Lion :: Time Machine Won't Exclude Hard Drive From Backup / Grayed Out
Jun 23, 2014I am backing up my data from my mac book pro for a second time. I plug in my external, and it says it doesn't have enough memory to back up my computer. I have 1 TB hard drive and used about 650 MB for the first back-up. Obviously I don't have enough to back up everything for a second time. I just want to back up the new stuff. When I go to exclude the current external from the new back up, it's grayed out. Do I have to delete the contents of the hard drive and re-back up the entire computer?
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Feb 22, 2012Can I include external drives to be backed up using Time Machine? Not only do I want to back up my IMac, but I have several extenal drives for one iPhoto, one iTunes and one for other files & documents. How do I know if they are included in the backup process?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Include Related Messages = Include Trash?
Jul 4, 2012Is there a way to make Mail show messages from the Trash when "include related messages" is turned on? If I have trashed a message and receive a later reply from that conversation, Mail won't show me the previous message. Â
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Aug 23, 2010I was trying to set up my Time Machine to an external hard drive. I didn't continue because it asked to "initialize" the hard drive which I had a lot of important things on.
I have another external hard drive I'd like to use but, my Time Machine has this error code of -43. What is this and how can I use my Time Machine on another external hard drive?
OS X Technologies :: Can't Open The Program Time Machine Located In The Folder /applications/time Machine
Mar 13, 2012can't open the program time machine located in the folder /applications/time machine anymore, message says program ain't working for unknown reaason, but I still can open time machine in the menu bar. any clues what the trouble might be? and/or is there any way to reinstall time machine only on os x 10.7.3?Â
btw., on the system backup hd which is a mirror of the imac system, the programm still works
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Cannot Enter The Time Machine When Press The Time Machine Icon
Mar 9, 2012I cannot enter the time machine when I press the time machine icon. I press and nothing happens, so I'm not sure even if it is backing up at this point. When i go to my Tme Capsule it has the folder there for back-ups and the most recent, but no access from the icon.
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Nov 19, 2008I just replaced my HD on my 15"MBP. The install went well until restoring my data from Time Machine. The apps came over fine but none of my data did. Yes, I checked all the boxes on the "restore from backup" menu.
Of course now when I start up time machine the backup isn't there. How do I get Time Machine to recognize the backup? I have it on two places - a time capsule and a separate external HD.
MacBook Pro :: SSD In 2010 - Enter Time Machine And / Or Finder The Machine Freezes
Jan 1, 2011Have installed an 120GB SSD in my Macbook Pro 2010 but have had a couple of problems. Sometimes when you try to enter time machine and or Finder the machine freezes. Also the only way out of this is to hold the power button down and reboot. I have been informed by Apple that there are slight differences between the 2009 and 2010 models. Another odd thing is Skype will not load up automatically on startup, despite making sure this option is ticked. Most other things seem to work. Reinstall original hard drive and all OK.I have tried this with OCZ and Crucial SSDs and get same result. I have also installed the SSDs by cloning and by direct original OS X disk.
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Feb 27, 2012I have my data saved on an external hard drive (OS 10.7) as I sold my previous Mac and am thinking about buying a power pc iMac using Leopard - does anyone know whether this will be able to open and transfer my data to the older Mac?
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Jun 1, 2009Every time my Mac checks for updates, it finds about 1.2gig of new instruments for Garageband and an iWeb update, but I don't use these and don't want to waste bandwidth on them. how to exclude these without always having to de-select them when downloading updates.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Deleting Time Machine Folder For One Machine?
May 27, 2012Yesterday I used Migration Assistant to recover the contents of a failed MacBook Pro (Snow Leopard) from a Time Machine backup to a new MacBook Air (10.7.4). Using the same external disk for backups, I now have a folder for both the old and new machines inÂ
/Volumes/time_machine/Backups.backupdb/Â Â
The instructions hereÂ
[URL]
explain how to reconnect time machine to the old machine's backups. Once I've done this and checked that I can access the old backups, can I simply delete the new machine folder to save space?Â
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Mac OS X Lion Server :: Server Time Machine Vs Client Time Machine?
Jun 8, 2012I have been running Time Machine on my iMac since I got it. I installed server and now I notice that the server app has Time Machine as well but its turned off. My oringinal Time Machine in system preferences seems to be running like it always has. What is the difference between the two?Â
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Nov 14, 2010In any case I'd like Spotlight to do the following:
1. Index stuff like System Preferences (so that I can find "Sharing" preference pane directly from Spotlight)
2. Not index all the system ".c" and ".h" files
I'm not able to figure out which dirs I should exclude from Spotlight Prefs -> Privacy (nor can I find the default settings for Spotlight)
Applications :: How To Exclude Wav Files From Itunes
Dec 29, 2009I just had a weird new update in itunes and now all my pc games wav files show in music itunes. how to exclude a certain type of files?
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Jan 5, 2010How can I exclude songs from itunes? In other words how can I hide songs or sound (from the operating system ) in itunes?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.7 Lion :: Exclude Emails From 'All My Files'
Mar 16, 2012I'm using Outlook on my MBA and was wondering if there is anyway to exclude emails from the file types that Finer uses when looking at all of your files? Â
At the moment when I am looking for certain files I find myself having to scroll endlessly to get past the individual email messages/files that Finder throws up.Â
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iMac G5, Intel iMac, Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.7)
OS X :: How To Exclude Certain File Types From Recent Documents
Nov 17, 2007I just saw this terminal script dock tip from [URL] where your recent Applications or Recent Documents among other "Recent" choices show up as a stack, which I thought was perfect because I could finally show my recent documents, which I couldn't do before due to smart folders not working with stacks. The only problem now is that the most inane file types show up there, such as iChat files and prefPanes, so I was wondering if anybody knew of script that would allow for you to exclude those doc types from showing up in recent documents.
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Feb 26, 2008When I mount an external disk, I can add it to the Spotlight privacy pane and all is well; Spotlight will quit indexing the drive. However, if I unmount/mount the drive or reboot/mount the drive, Spotlight starts indexing the drive all over again and I have to add it to the privacy pane again. Is there a way to make Spotlight permanently "forget" an external drive?
View 4 Replies View RelatedITunes :: Exclude Videos From Music Library?
May 28, 2012Is there perhaps a setting to tweak that would prevent iTunes from listing videos (like music videos some albums include) alongside the music library? I usually uncheck them so they don't play after an album runs through but my OCD would much prefer they not even be listed in the same list. I don't want to remove them from my entire iTunes library but would prefer them only being visible within the movies tab.Â
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iTunes, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Exclude Dotted Files From Zip?
Jun 28, 2012How do you make the exclude file option on zip, or unzip, work for dotted files? For example, Â
zip -r foo ~/foo/ -x *.txtÂ
will zip all files in ~/foo/ that do not have the extension txt. But this doesn't work for "hidden" files, those that start with ".", like ".txt". So,Â
zip -r foo ~/foo/ -x /.txtÂ
still gets all the .txt files in foo zipped up, not excluded.Â
unzip foo -x /.txtÂ
has the same problem: it happily includes any .txt files in foo.zip in the unzipping
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Mac OS X (10.6.8)
MacBook Air :: Way To Exclude Printing From Parental Controls
Sep 3, 2014I have set parental controls for my daughter's laptop and I'm finding them a little too controlling! In particular, it requires my consent for accessing our wifi home printer (not a problem, I've approved that) but then also for the printer at her school. Other than turning off controls for a day to allow her to get authorized for whatever printers they have at the school, and hoping that the authorization will last, is there a way to exclude printing from the parental controls in the first place? Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
