Just want to bring up time machine users' general configuration of what folders they normally exclude.
For myself, I exclude:
Downloads
Desktop
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None
I've gotten kinda hooked on the ability to go back and get whatever I want. -
i don't exlude any just for the ease of completely restoring if I lose a HDD or get a new machine, the best method is to make a partition if you don't want to take up your entire external. or just use a single drive only for timemachine.
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Movies
Downloads
Virtual Machines -
No exclusions for me. I like the notion that I can always go back and retrieve something but more importantly -- know that it will be there waiting for me.
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Just downloads for me
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I exclude my downloads folder (changes too often), and my desktop (since temporary screenshots etc go there).
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Pr0n
and movies
In hindsight, I shouldn't have done that
I recently switched from a Dell XPS to a Macbook.
Finished off the manual file transfers and wiped the old drive clean (since that was going to the FIL)
Last week, I couldn't resist the temptation of the new unibody macbooks and pulled the triggger on the new one
While waiting for the new MB to arrive, I sold off the existing MB (wiping the drive clean, smug in the belief that Timemachine will get the new MB to the same state as the old one)
Oh wait...now where's my collection painstakingly built since college
Thankfully, the movies do stay backed up on a NAS drive though -
Anybody manually deleting old backups to save some space and no problems so far? I have done it for quite a few times now even though I have plenty of space left.
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I recently installed Entourage when I purchased office for mac. After seeing the way Time Machine plays with entourage (large, VERY large backups with entourage) I may have to add Entourage to this list of what not to backup. Otherwise my 500 GB Time Capsule will be full in no time
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Just the bittorrent folder. Changes too often so will eat up my hard drive. Any downloads worth keeping get shifted elsewhere so Time Machine can do its thing with them
Time Machine: What folders do you guys exclude?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by chen, Nov 2, 2008.