I want to create a mount point for the latest system snap shot somewhere where Time Machine won't include it. I'm on Monterey 12.4 and I can't find the file where the default Time Machine exclusions are listed. I was planning on creating directory /private/temp/snap for the mount point. Should this be OK, or should I exclude it explicitly in Time Machine exclusions?
Mac Studio
ric982 wrote:
I want to create a mount point for the latest system snap shot somewhere where Time Machine won't include it. I'm on Monterey 12.4 and I can't find the file where the default Time Machine exclusions are listed. I was planning on creating directory /private/temp/snap for the mount point. Should this be OK, or should I exclude it explicitly in Time Machine exclusions?
TM>Preferences>Options
you can drag & drop to complete the path if in doubt.
Exclude files from a Time Machine backup on Mac
Thanks for the response.
I was aware that I could explicitly exclude it. If I'm going to explicitly exclude the directory, I might as well put it in my HOME directory so it's obvious it's there and doesn't get deleted by the system automatically. Something like /Users/myid/MNT/Snapshot. I was just wondering if there was an existing convention about where it should be place on macOS (like /MNT on Linux).
Safe Place to Mount a System Snapshot
