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Mark as "Do Not Back up"

I have a somewhat large database shipping with my application that is ONLY readable (the user writes nothing to this database). I'm looking for a very simple way to make sure that this database is not backed up. Is there an easy way to mark the database file as "do not back this up"?

Solution

  • Create an NSURL instance with your file, and then set the NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey resource value:

    [url setResourceValue:@YES forKey:NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey error:NULL]; // Can use an NSError for error reporting of course

    From QA 1719