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Exclude Maven target directories from Time Machine backup
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| # Exclude all paths for directories named 'target' in the ~/Projects directory (which I use for my Maven projects) | |
| # Sticky excludes (without -p and sudo) are not that useful, because 'mvn clean' removes the target directory | |
| find ~/Projects -type d -name target | xargs sudo tmutil addexclusion -p | |
| # List all items excluded by path | |
| plutil -convert xml1 -o - /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist | xmllint -xpath /plist/dict/array[2] - | |
| # List all items with sticky excludes | |
| mdfind "com_apple_backup_excludeItem = com.apple.backupd" |
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There's also a Maven plugin which excludes the target directory from Time Machine back-up, but currently it's giving me an error: http://snippets.syabru.ch/maven-timemachine-plugin/