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Re:APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS by dividedbyzero on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:04AM (#24626229)
> That said I spend some time carefully picking which folders to include in the backup to avoid slowness and bloat.

What directories do you exclude? I feel like there must be lots of superfluous stuff in my backups but I don't understand macOS well enough to know for sure.

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Re:APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS by wila on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @08:16AM (#24626753)
Not OP, but you should exclude large files such as VMs [0] as those don't work well with Time Machine.

Disclaimer: I am the author of Vimalin [1], the tool that Howard references as a possible solution for VM backups.

[0] https://eclecticlight.co/2020/03/02/time-machine-15-large-fi...

[1] https://vimalin.com

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