Rust library for backup-invisible files and directories

Marks a given path as excluded from backups. Currently implemented only for Time Machine on macOS.

Applications that create caches and temporary files in non-standard system locations should exclude these from backups to avoid unneccessary I/O churn and backup bloat.

Usage

It's available as a Rust library:

extern crate exclude_from_backups as efb;

efb::exclude_from_backups(&path)?;

or a CLI command:

cargo install exclude_from_backups
exclude_from_backups ~/*/target/release

lib.rs:

Marks a given path as excluded from backups.

Currently implemented only for Time Machine on macOS.

Applications that create caches and temporary files in non-standard system locations should exclude these from backups to avoid unneccessary I/O churn and backup bloat.