Fwd: TM logging

Derek Chesterfield dez at mac.com
Mon Oct 29 12:32:29 PDT 2007


On 29 Oct 2007, at 19:13, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:

>
> On Oct 29, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Derek Chesterfield wrote:
>
>> Has anyone figured out how to determine what files are backed up  
>> during incremental backups? I am guessing there is a hidden  
>> defaults option that can be set to make backupd provide a detailed  
>> log, but I'm not clever enough to find it!
>>
>> I'm trying to work out why it sometimes backs up over 8000 files  
>> after an hour of nothing more than browsing and emailing...
>
> Well, probably Safari caches, but one would think Apple would  
> exclude those....

The /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/ 
StdExclusions.plist file implies that ~/Library/Caches are indeed  
excluded.



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