asimov
Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups (by stevegrunwell)
tmutils
Time Machine utilities for Mac to import a backup history, mark individual snapshot directories as valid for the current computer, and deduplicate files in parallel directories (e.g., between snapshot directories). (by torstenvl)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
asimov
Posts with mentions or reviews of asimov.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-25.
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ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance
I have found that Asimov alleviates this issue.
https://github.com/stevegrunwell/asimov
I wrote a tiny blurb about it here:
https://nabeards.com/time-machine-backups-ignoring-npm-modul...
- Exclude node_modules from Apple Time Machine backups
tmutils
Posts with mentions or reviews of tmutils.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-25.
- Show HN: Time Machine Utilities
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ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance
Most Time Machine weirdness comes down to metadata mismatches after migrating from machine to machine.
I made some fairly simple shell scripts to help fix these issues.
https://github.com/torstenvl/tmutils
What are some alternatives?
When comparing asimov and tmutils you can also consider the following projects:
Design Patterns PHP - sample code for several design patterns in PHP 8
borg-backup-exclusions-macos - Exclusion rules for Borg Backup catered to macOS
borg-backup-exclusions-mac
borg-tm - Use borg and APFS snapshot to backup your Mac
arq_restore - command-line utility for restoring from Arq backups