I have a problem in that any .sparsebundle
I create in my home folder tree is not getting backed up to time machine.
It is like an 'exclude by path' but I can't remove it or see where it is defined.
# whoami
root
# tmutil isexcluded /Users/andy/atest.sparsebundle /Users/Administrator/atest.sparsebundle
[Excluded] /Users/andy/atest.sparsebundle
[Included] /Users/Administrator/atest.sparsebundle
# defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist ExcludeByPath
(
"//Users/Shared/adi",
"/Users/Shared/adi",
"/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/PlayReady"
)
# ls -l@ /Users/andy/atest.sparsebundle
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 0 18 Oct 20:54 /Users/andy/atest.sparsebundle
# xattr -l /Users/andy/atest.sparsebundle
# rm /Users/andy/atest.sparsebundle
# tmutil isexcluded /Users/andy/atest.sparsebundle
[Excluded] /Users/andy/atest.sparsebundle
Any ideas?
Best Answer
Have you tried removing the exclusion with the
tmutil
command?