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OS X

2014


Excluding Part of OS X Package from Backblaze and Time Machine Backups to Save Tens/Hundreds of GB

·2 mins

Time Machine and Backblaze team up to make a really robust backup configuration for any Mac user. They offer features to exclude particular directories from the backups, but what happens when those directories are inside of a “package” such as your iMovie or iPhoto library? If you use the UI to do this, you’ll never be able to omit a subdirectory of a package, but luckily  there is a very easy solution.