How to exclude files from Time Machine backups

Peter Cohen, writing for iMore, talks you through the Time Machine interface. It’s not difficult, perhaps obvious, but well worth the read and the thinking that goes with it.

One thing that was new to me was the existence of Apple’s Time Machine exclusions list:

/System/Library/CoreServices/ backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/ StdExclusions.plist

Interesting stuff.