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Displays set of files that were saved in Time Machine backups
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Feature request: Pre-index what would be backed up and make file manifest #8

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This is a request for a new feature. 

Most TM problems arise from pushing huge backup sets to the disk. I think most 
users use tools like timedog to determine what large files are being backed up. 
While this is useful after the backup has taken place, it would be also useful 
to determine which files will be backed up during the next backup (just as TM 
does) and providing a manifest of these along with the file sizes. This way a 
user could exclude large file sets from the backup prior the pushing the backup 
to the disk.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jon...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2010 at 5:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Agreed, would be really helpful to do it before it backs up instead of 
retroactively, though I would expect it to be rather hard if not impossible to 
do that without practically recreating how time machines works and reads in the 
fsevents file that records all file/folder changes on the disk

Original comment by HeliosDo...@gmail.com on 17 Jul 2011 at 2:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Helios is correct, doing this would require deep knowledge of TimeMachine's 
workings, whereas this script just keeps tracks of hard links to see which 
files and directories have been changed between two recent backups.

Original comment by jdtsm...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2011 at 4:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by jdtsm...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2011 at 4:45