{"id":117,"date":"2012-02-12T12:32:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T11:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/wordpress\/?p=117"},"modified":"2012-02-12T12:32:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T11:32:01","slug":"tuning-the-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/tuning-the-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning The Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"afa2b3b851443650502c43e85c746c1f\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-4223201538046844\";\r\n\/* standaardblok *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"9522527129\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 320;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 50;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using the OS X Time Machine for over 2 years now, and it has proven itself to be hassle free and easy to use.<\/p>\n<p>I found a few tweaks though I would like to share with you. Applying them might make your Time Machine backup even faster, and also smaller.<\/p>\n<p>In the Time Machine Preferences I&#8217;ve excluded some directories for backup.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, go to your Time Machine preferences and click the &#8220;Options&#8221; (or <em>Opties,<\/em>\u00a0in Dutch)\u00a0button:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"webkit-fake-url:\/\/5B325C46-8502-427B-AE50-57C3A65927E1\/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The following screen appears:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"webkit-fake-url:\/\/C33B301F-AF9C-4A7F-9F4F-28A1ABCE8DA9\/image.tiff\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you see, I&#8217;ve added some directories which I do not need Time Machine to handle, because I take care of the backups myself. \u00a0Simply press the &#8220;+&#8221; sign button and enter a location.<\/p>\n<p>Other locations only contain cachefiles, which are ok to loose in case of emergency. The most important are:<\/p>\n<pre>\u02dc\/Library\/Caches and<\/pre>\n<pre>\/Library\/Caches<\/pre>\n<p>This contains all the OS X cachefiles (for user data and application data). They help you speed up OS X performance, but will be rebuild when they are deleted or lost. Because this directory may contain gigabytes of data, it&#8217;s a good candidate for exclusion. <em>I read somewhere the caches directories are already excluded by TM by default. Ah well, better be safe than sorry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When you use Adobe Lightroom, you may also want to exclude the Lightroom Catalog Previews. The filename may have a slightly different name on your system, but it is located in your Lightroom catalog directory, probably something like:<\/p>\n<pre>&lt;your lightroom catalog path&gt;\/Lightroom 2 Catalog Previews.<strong>lrdata<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>This file contains a preview cache for your Lightroom images, is at least hundreds of megabytes in size and changes everytime you open a file in Lightroom.<\/p>\n<p>Another culprit for filling up your backup drive really quickly is iTunes&#8217; Podcasts directory. Exclude it and it&#8217;ll save you at least a few hunderd megs.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, you can do the same for your Garageband data ( \/Library\/Application Support\/Garageband ) and iPhoto themes ( \/Library\/Application Support\/iPhoto ). Don&#8217;t worry, you can reinstall them from your iLife disc, if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OS X Time machine tips and tricks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,114,13,85,113,116,117,115,118,120,119],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-blog","tag-apple","tag-backup","tag-os-x","tag-performance","tag-time-machine","tag-timemachine","tag-tips","tag-tm","tag-tricks","tag-tune","tag-tweak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}