removing all exclusion and stopping / uninstalling

[dcrabbeYapily]

hello - nice tool. However I installed it without realising there is no documentation for removing excludes and uninstalling.

How would I go about this?

thanks, D.

[stevegrunwell]

Good point, this is something that should be better documented.

You can find all of the existing exclusions with the following (props to Heissenberger Laboratory):

$ find ~ -xattrname "com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem" -type d -prune

From there, you could pipe that list (or some version thereof) to tmutil removeexclusion to make them re-eligible for backups.

For removal, you would either delete the Asimov directory (if you've installed manually), or run brew uninstall asimov (for Homebrew installations).

[dcrabbeYapily]

Thanks so much for the email!

All makes sense and listing the excludes in terminal as we speak.

Best, Dan.

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On 17 Feb 2021, at 14:58, Steve Grunwell [email protected] wrote:

Good point, this is something that should be better documented.

You can find all of the existing exclusions with the following (props to Heissenberger Laboratory https://www.heissenberger.at/en/blog/macos-exclude-node_modules-folder-from-time-machine/):

$ find ~ -xattrname "com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem" -type d -prune From there, you could pipe that list (or some version thereof) to tmutil removeexclusion to make them re-eligible for backups.

For removal, you would either delete the Asimov directory (if you've installed manually), or run brew uninstall asimov (for Homebrew installations).

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