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{
SkipPaths = (
"/Applications",
"/bin",
"/cores",
"/installer.failurerequests",
"/Library/Application Support/Apple",
"/Library/Audio",
"/Library/Caches",
"/Library/ColorPickers",
"/Library/Components",
"/Library/Compositions",
"/Library/CoreAnalytics",
"/Library/CoreMediaIO",
"/Library/Desktop Pictures",
"/Library/Developer",
"/Library/DirectoryServices",
"/Library/Documentation",
"/Library/FileMaker Server/Data/Databases",
"/Library/Filesystems",
"/Library/Frameworks",
"/Library/GPUBundles",
"/Library/Graphics",
"/Library/Image Capture",
"/Library/Java",
"/Library/MessageTracer",
"/Library/Modem Scripts",
"/Library/OpenDirectory",
"/Library/Perl",
"/Library/Printers",
"/Library/Python",
"/Library/Ruby",
"/Library/Screen Savers/Default Collections",
"/Library/Scripts",
"/Library/Speech",
"/Library/User Pictures",
"/Library/Video",
"/Library/WebServer",
"/Library/Widgets",
"/sbin"
"/System",
"/usr/bin",
"/usr/include",
"/usr/lib",
"/usr/libexec",
"/usr/sbin",
"/usr/share",
"/usr/standalone",
);
SkipSystemFiles = 0;
}
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jaydisc commented Apr 2, 2018

When you choose the System folder in the Time Machine Options as an exclusion, it asks if you want to exclude just the System folder or ALL System Files. If you choose the later, it adds /System to exclusions and sets SkipSystemFiles = 0.

UNFORTUNATELY, this settings seems to EXCLUDE /usr/local, yet INCLUDE:

/usr/bin
/usr/include
/usr/lib
/usr/libexec
/usr/sbin
/usr/share
/usr/standalone

Which is really the OPPOSITE of what it should doing. /usr/local is NOT System data. So, I no longer choose to exclude all System Files, and have instead crafted the above exclusion list, which does the right thing for me.

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jaydisc commented Apr 2, 2018

I'm also excluding the FileMaker Server Databases folder, as it's recommend that you NEVER back up the live database, rather just use the backup schedules.

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