Workaround for TM's default exclusions list?

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Workaround for TM's default exclusions list?

Wanted to send a crash log I'd seen a few days earlier, and found ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/ was no longer there (I have no idea…). Went into Time Machine to recover said file, only to discover that Time Machine does not backup the Logs folder. Hmmm. Did I exclude that myself? No!

Then I remembered a file with 'default' exclusions. It's here:

/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/

And it contains the user's Logs folder. Darn.

There's no fiddling with that file, obviously.

How can I get those log files into my Time Machine backup?

I could set up an automatic copy to another location that does get backed up, but maybe there's another workaround which does not involve duplicating files.

Is there one?

Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 24, 2012 3:20 AM

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Answer 1

baltwo

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Nov 24, 2012 12:42 PM in response to teobaldo

See Pondini's TM FAQs, for starters.

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teobaldo Author

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Nov 24, 2012 1:48 PM in response to baltwo

Yes.

Thank you.

A valuable resource, that website.

Doesn't talk about what I want to accomplish, though.

Then again, I might have missed or misread something, not being a native speaker.

Time Machine will not backup items listed in the plist I mentioned.

And there's no way I can override that behaviour.

Or is there?

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Answer 3

baltwo

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Nov 24, 2012 2:15 PM in response to teobaldo

Sorry, I don't use TM. You could modify that plist using TextEdit and ensuring that the modified one has the appropriate owner and group permissions. That's left as an exercise.

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