StephenC Posted April 22, 2005 Report Share Posted April 22, 2005 Welcome to my dream world: I'm inclined to back up almost everything. What I don't want to back up are scratch files, browser caches, or other files whose loss would only affect performance the first time they were recreated. While I don't want to chase every byte, I'm hoping I can moderate the rate at which my back up sets grow. To that end, I have created the selector below which I exclude from back ups (I know it only excludes caches for Mozilla and Safari). Can anyone offer additional suggestions for tuning this selector? Am I excluding something that I will regret if/when I have to do a restore? Am I making my exclusion unnecessarily complex? Does anyone know if it is safe to exclude: /System/Library/Caches/* /Library/Packages/* Thanks, S -------------------------------------- Selector: Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/Users" and Enclosing folder path name does contain "Library/Mozilla" and File name does match "history.dat" or Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/private/var/db" and File name does match "locate.database" or Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/private/var/log/cups" and File name does match "log" or Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/Library/StartupItems" and Enclosing folder name does match "RetroRun" or File name does match ".DS_Store" or Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/private" and Folder name does match "tmp" or Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/Users" and Enclosing folder name does match ".Trash" or Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/Users" and Enclosing folder path name does contain "Library/Mozilla" and Folder name does match "Cache" or Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/Users" and Enclosing folder path name does contain "Library/Caches/Safari" or Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/Library/Caches" and File name does start with "com.apple.dock" or Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/Library/Caches" and File name does start with "com.apple.LaunchServices" or Enclosing folder path name does start with "Macintosh HD/Library/Caches" and File name does start with "com.apple.SoftwareUpdate" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbirnbaum Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 Have you done test restores to see whether you can get a bootable system with all the major irreplaceable files back? And how much backup space have you found this saves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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