Excluding items from a full system backup

You can exclude items from the whole system (clone) backup by selecting "System clone exclude list" in the File menu. You will see the window below with two columns lists. The one on the left is a list of every item at root level of your hard drive, including all the main folders like Applications, System, Users etc.. the list on the right is the default list of items to exclude. The default list is necessary for the clone to work so do not remove any of the deafault items. You can, however, add any of the items on the left to this list.

To add exclude items

  1. Click on one or several items in the list on the left (select multiples by holding down the command key when clicking.)
  2. Press "Exclude" button.
  3. The items are added to the exclude list on the right.
  4. Press the "close" button to save the changes.
  5. You can edit the exclude list itself but only if you uinderstand the rsync "exclude patterns". See the man page (in the terminal application) for rsync to learn more.
  6. To restore the original default list, press the "Reset default" button.


See also

Setting the copy method