I am trying to back up my external drive to the cloud with Duplicacy.
I also use Time Machine on macOS 10.12.5 to backup up this same external drive to a local NAS.
It appears that Time Machine creates system directories on the external drive that are hidden. When Duplicacy tries to backup these directories to the cloud, it gives an error message saying that it unable to backup these directories. The error message popped up a few times already during the current backup, and I am not sure if the backup stops when this error message appears. It becomes a hassle if I have to click ok in order for the backup to continue.
I set my “Finder” so that I am able to see these hidden system files. In Duplicacy “Repository” menu, I tried to exclude these directories, but it doesn’t seem to show up in the selection window. It appears that Duplicacy backup process can see these hidden directories, but the “exclude directories” menu can not.
How do I backup my external hard drive and have Duplicacy skip the hidden directories such as ".mobilebackups "?
Lastly is there a way to backup multiple “Repository”? For example, on the same Macbook, I would like to backup my external hard drive along with certain folders on the local hard drive.