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10.5: Leave certain newsgroup files out of Time Machine
Authored by: ClunkClunk on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 11:04AM PST

If you use Unison, you can also exclude Unison's caches out of your backups. Unison downloads the headers and other information for each newsgroup you open, and this can take up unneeded space.
Just exclude ~/Library/Application Support/Unison/your.news.provider

10.5: Leave certain newsgroup files out of Time Machine
Authored by: Angus on Wed, Jan 21 2009 at 5:10PM PST

Thanks Clunk Clunk. I noticed my backups were huge, but it took me a while to figure out that it was because I'd been using Unison lately.