The script below is triggered every day from my Mac. I use Hazel to move the tar.gz to an external hard disk once it's finished. This happens every day without me noticing. You can exclude folders if you want to. You probably want to exclude giant cache folders.
You should have a similar script.
My cpu would go skyrocket after I installed this script, when doing a backup with TimeMachine.
opendirectoryd
used over 50% of my CPU.Seems TimeMachine chokes on the symlinks of Dropbox.
Find and delete them with
find -L ~/Dropbox -type l
.