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Time machine exclude list for developers

Backuping the following folders can eat up hundreds of gigabytes on the backup storage, and can cause significant performance reduction if the backup drive is a HDD (some of them can contains millions of files).

  • /Applications/Xcode
  • /Applications/Xcode-beta
  • ~/.gradle
  • ~/.npm
  • ~/.composer
  • ~/.cocoapods
  • ~/.android/avd
  • ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps
  • ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Application Cache
  • ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData
  • ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport
  • {path to a node project}/node_modules

By removing these folders from the backups and excluding them in the System Preferences, the backup process can be faster and will consume less storage space.

Posted: 2020.08.25.

Category: time machine, mac, prog

Tags: speed up, time machine

András Oravecz 2020-08-25 2020-08-25

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