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How do I exclude BOINC files from hourly backups?

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Message 41651 - Posted: 20 Feb 2011, 1:11:29 UTC

I use Apple's Time Machine to make incremental backups of my hard drive. I just started participating 2 hours ago. BOINC shows about 30 MB devoted to this project. I expect this space to grow with time since I've set my max hard drive allocation at 50 GB. Since these files are presumably constantly changing, I could potentially chew up a lot of space on my backup drive.

I would like to exclude my BOINC files from my backups -- does anyone know the file names or locations so that I can add them to Time Machine's exclusion list?

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Message 41652 - Posted: 20 Feb 2011, 1:24:36 UTC - in response to Message 41651.  

This FAQ may help.

See my sig below for info on backups of the models.

Backups: Here
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Message 41654 - Posted: 20 Feb 2011, 23:21:32 UTC - in response to Message 41652.  

Thanks! That's just what I was looking for.

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