Time Machine Backups Up "Do Not Backup" Folders

For my first Time Machine backup, I started with a new 1TB drive properly formated. I selected 2 folders I did NOT want backup up. Once TM finished I entered the backup & there are the Do Not Backup folders with all their contents. Should I trash the Plist? which one?
Thanks

James,
I'm betting your messed with the backupd.plists which are different than the TimeMachine.plist.
*Backups Have Ceased With No Error Messages*
I think something is wrong with the backupd.plists. If something is wrong with these .plists you can select your backup disk in Time Machine Preferencess. But you CANNOT initiate a backup, even when selecting "Back Up Now" from the TM menu. And no error message will appear when it fails. You should still be able to launch Time Machine’s “time travel” interface though.
In a Finder window navigate to the LaunchDaemons folder. The file path is /System/Library/LaunchDaemons.
Click on the NAME column to arrange everything alphabetically.
Scroll down to the 4 backupd.plist files. They are:
com.apple.backupd-attach.plist
com.apple.backupd-auto.plist
com.apple.backupd-wake.plist
com.apple.backupd.plist
Now launch Time Machine from the Dock.
From the time scale on the right choose a date before backups began to fail.
When the windows stop moving, Hold the Shift key down and click on each of the 4 files to select them.
They should all be highlighted now. Click "Restore" in the lower right-hand corner.
You will be asked to enter your Admin Password.
When asked 'Do you want to Replace the existing files' say yes to each one.
Now Highlight one of the restored files and Get Info. Sharing & Permissions should be:
system - Read & Write
wheel - Read only
everyone - Read only
Reboot your Mac. Once back at the desktop try initiating a backup.
If this does not work you may have to do an Archive and Install to restore Time Machine functionality.
Let us know if this resolved the issue
Cheers!

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    J.

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    I would be wary of deleting anything manually from your TM backup - the sparsebundles are rather sensitive. If you like, however, you could always erase your TM backups and start anew... that's the only way I would know to 'fix' the problem.
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    Clinton

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