Time Machine - List of Files that were backed up I'd like to know to see which files are getting backed up by my time machine? I often see a large amount of data being transfered and I'm not sure sure what it is.
The command tmutil compare lets you compare file lists if you don't want to do it using ls or other commands that can show differences in files and folders like rsync and many graphical diff programs.

You can list backup paths and then copy them into the compare command. Example:

sudo tmutil listbackups
sudo tmutil compare "path1" "path2"


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