TM logging

[Derek Chesterfield]

Well, you don't need to be sudo for that! I've already figured out  
that log, as can be seen from the sample line below.
What I am trying to find it more detail. Most particularly *what*  
files are being backed up on each cycle, not just a count.

On 30 Oct 2007, at 19:57, David Evenson wrote:

> Time Machine logs to system.log.
> %sudo /var/log/system.log | grep backupd
>
> On Oct 29, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Derek Chesterfield wrote:
>
>> Hmm! TM backed up 33 *bytes* in 2,357 files?
>> 29/10/2007 19:32:04 /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[2238]  
>> Copied 2357 files (33 bytes) from volume Leopard.
>> Yeah - I *really* want to see some debug info!
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> From: Derek Chesterfield <dez at mac.com>
>>> Date: 29 October 2007 19:11:52 GMT
>>>
>>> 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...