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Feature request: ignore files excluded by timemachine files #1074
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I am afraid it is not so simple... your wrapper is missing a lot. You only include your explicit TM exclusions + 3rd parties software indications what to exclude. You are missing entirely macOS default exclusions. With your approach your backup most likely includes such red herrings as Have a look at my post here: https://forum.restic.net/t/exclude-patterns-for-caches/7219/5 Also I do not think it should be Or talk to Apple - ask them to document how to get TM exclusions - then it should be easy to create wrapper or maybe consider some macOS specific |
oo thanks @kapitainsky It wouldn't need to belong in rustic, maybe there's room for a small utility program to generate exclusion lists. |
100% agree. macOS users will love it. Hopefully somebody will write it one day. |
Now that I'm actually working on switching to rustic, would love to exclude by the |
As a mac user I use time machine backups. It'd be great if rustic was able to ignore files I have already ignored in my time machine plist.
Currently I use restic backups and have a wrapper script that produces an excludes.txt with these files. There are two sources of files ignored by time machine:
SkipPaths
from the plist located at/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
sudo mdfind "com_apple_backup_excludeItem = 'com.apple.backupd'"
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