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10.5: Leave certain newsgroup files out of Time Machine
Authored by: JaxMyers on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 8:12AM PST

I know this doesn't work for everybody, but I went ahead and told Time Machine not to backup any system files. So if my system crashes, I can't restore the whole computer, but I can install OS X from the DVD and then restore individual documents manually. I have limited backup space and my documents are most important to me, so I thought this was a good way to do it.