Wednesday, April 30, 2008

TimeMachine backs up too much?

I just discovered the reason why TimeMachine was backing up so much data. I forgot to exclude my Maven and Ivy repositories :o)

Here is a good tip to discover which files are backed up. You need to have the Developer Tools installed.

When TimeMachine backs up
  • Launch /Developer/Applications/Instruments
  • Select File Activity
  • Open the default target combo box and attach the backupd process.
  • Start recording
  • Enjoy the list.

I wish there were a less geeky solution.
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2 comments:

Efge said...

Shorter, put this in a "seebackup" shell script:

#!/bin/sh
opensnoop -n backupd | sed -ne '/\/Backups\.backupdb\// s,.*\.inProgress/[^/]*/,/Volumes/,p'

May 2, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Achille said...

Here's a simpler method:
% sudo fs_usage backupd

July 2, 2008 at 9:34 AM

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