If you care about the data being stored on your Apple computer, then you probably already use Time Machine as a backup solution. But if you're a developer or somebody else using MySQL, then you will soon or later reach the maximum capacity of your backup HDD. Why, just because the transaction logs (usually a file called ibdata) grows day after day and Time Machine seems not to be able to only backup the difference between 2 versions of this file.

I've faced this issue by the past and managed to solve it, but here it is, once again and because I've reinstalled my LAMP stack, my backup HDD is crying again and I decided to make a simple note on the topic.

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